Projects

Industry

Blocky

Blocky is a data and computation integrity platform I co-founded and serve as CTO. The core problem: how do you trust data when you can’t trust the systems that produced it? Blocky answers that by building cryptographic provenance into the data pipeline itself, so consumers can verify what they interact with rather than relying on assumptions about their environment.

I co-designed all protocols and intellectual property, and architected and led development of all systems. This work was supported by two NSF SBIR grants totaling $1.2M: a Phase I award for a microservices approach to low-latency process interaction through distributed ledgers, and a Phase II award for a provable data lineage system for the data sharing economy.

ProductionPro

ProductionPro is a collaboration platform for film, theatre, and television. I was the first technical hire and grew the engineering team from zero to six engineers. I led design and implementation from paper prototype to initial release, including the backend architecture on AWS and Firebase, internal and external APIs and data models in Django, authentication and security systems, real-time collaboration infrastructure, and a natural language processing system for script interpretation.

Nowsta

Nowsta is a payments and logistics platform providing next-day payment processing for hourly workers. As Engineering Team Lead and later Technical Advisor, I led development of the payments platform and worker recommendation engine, redesigned the messaging system, and architected the CI/CD pipeline.

MC21 — Monte Carlo Particle Transport

At Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory, I was a member of the MC21 core team, a continuous energy Monte Carlo particle transport simulation code used in nuclear reactor design. I led development of the geometric kernel: designing and implementing algorithms, reviewing contributed code, planning future development, and reporting to funding sources. This followed multiple internships at Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory where I developed algorithms for volume computation and point-in/point-out predicates for complex CSG geometries. This work reduced lost particles in physical simulations even for extremely complex model geometries.

Research

Computational Geometry and Topological Data Analysis

My academic research focused on building geometric algorithms that are provably correct under numerical constraints — treating precision as a limited resource rather than an assumption. Applications included physical simulation, constructive solid geometry, image processing, nearest-neighbor queries, and surface simplification. This work was the foundation of my PhD at UNC Chapel Hill, where I was advised by Jack Snoeyink, and continued through my faculty appointment at Montana State University.

At MSU, this research thread expanded into topological data analysis: using tools from algebraic topology to extract structure from complex datasets. Projects included analyzing musical compositions with TDA, topology-driven approaches to localization, and studying the “power” of various topological descriptors.

BRaID — Biofilm Resource and Information Database

As PI on an NSF ABI Innovation grant ($300K), I led development of BRaID, a system for fusing and organizing diverse biofilm data types using ontology and Bayesian networks. The project brought together researchers in computer science, microbiology, and data science.

Software Utilities

These are a sample of some of my current favorite small utilities that I have worked on recently.

muxwm

muxwm is a workflow management layer for the i3 window manager, bringing tmux-like project and task semantics to i3. It lets you switch between named project views without managing workspace numbers manually. Written in Rust.

pluck

pluck extracts code snippets from source files by tag — using function and type definitions as anchors rather than line numbers — so documentation stays in sync as code evolves. A lightweight alternative to literate programming. Written in Go.

abi

abi is a minimal Go library for Ethereum ABI encoding and decoding. No reflection, no code generation, zero dependencies. Written in Go.

Joke Projects

Not everything needs to ship to production.

Code HIIT

Code HIIT applies the principles of high-intensity interval training to the one muscle that matters most: your fingers. Timed drills for symbols, brackets, regex, and other characters that separate real programmers from people who use GUIs. Intervals for coders.