Senior Software Engineer · Technical Leader
I lead ambiguous, security-critical initiatives from architecture to production—working across financial institutions, digital-asset infrastructure, and pharmaceutical research while staying close enough to the code to resolve the hard parts.
I’m a software engineer, helping companies build scalable web platforms with React/TypeScript, Rust/Java—connecting frontend architecture, backend services, APIs, security, performance and production reliability.
Institutional capability
The useful boundary is not strategy versus implementation. It is whether the architecture, delivery system, and operating controls hold together when the platform reaches production.
Translate business outcomes into system boundaries, roadmaps, milestones, contracts, and deployable increments.
Design trust boundaries and governance controls for custody, signing, credentials, ledgers, and distributed infrastructure.
Use LLMs across discovery, architecture, implementation, evaluation, review, and documentation without outsourcing accountability.
Selected experience
Recent work across institutional custody, bank integrations, digital-asset markets, and scientific analytics.
Leading a 0→1 multi-tenant institutional custody platform. Designed FROST distributed key generation and two-round threshold signing over Ed25519/secp256k1, secret-shared exchange credentials, and governance-gated API-key controls; established a controlled AI-assisted workflow for security-critical Rust.
Led delivery across engineering, product, banks, partners, and compliance—including Hyperledger Besu integration for a tier-1 Italian bank, a Stellar integration contributing to a $600K grant, D7 ledger delivery, and resolution of critical indexing and reserve-clearing defects.
Led a Cardano DEX and launchpad from 0→1 across client, backend, event streams, wallet integrations, KYC, architecture, and production operations on GCP/Kubernetes; contributed directly to a 2M ADA token sale.
Led the DIEP analytics platform for drug-induced toxicity and RNA-seq phenotype analysis. Embedded with five scientists, delivered 5× the required feature scope, supported 11 high-priority RNA-seq projects, and earned three contract extensions.
Engineering evidence
Six detailed case studies expose the architecture, threat models, tradeoffs, and verification—not just screenshots.
Multi-tenant Bitcoin and Stellar custody with a pull-based zero-trust topology, no inbound secure-zone connections, an immutable hash-chained governance ledger, and M-of-N policy-signed workflows.
Financial integrityDouble-entry digital-asset books with settlement and compliance lifecycles, three layers of idempotency, arbitrary-precision arithmetic, and independent Kotlin/Rust dual-run verification.
Trust boundariesA Manifest V3 development wallet whose Rust-to-WASM boundary never returns plaintext secrets to JavaScript, with an Argon2id/XChaCha20-Poly1305 vault and multi-ledger signing through Taproot.
Distributed systemsFrom-scratch Ouroboros-lineage PoS with consensus-embedded adaptive block cadence, hand-implemented ECVRF/Ed25519, byte-exact Kotlin↔Rust nodes, 2,510/2,510 live blocks verified, and 300+ tests.
Operational resilienceIndexing infrastructure designed around reorgs, retries, failover, preserved history, event-sourced broadcasting, dual data stores, and from-scratch BIP341/BIP143 cryptography.
Applied AIA voice-native AI interview coach with ElevenLabs→Kokoro→OpenAI TTS failover, emotion-aware synthesis, and an eight-provider BYOK LLM layer with per-user circuit breakers.
Technical writing
Deep technical guides covering the foundations and production edges behind regulated platforms.
Bitcoin, Cardano, Cosmos, UTXO systems, consensus, transactions, nodes, and interoperability.
Key management, signatures, audit trails, consensus security, and production hardening.
Ledgers, event-driven systems, data boundaries, resiliency, and production-grade APIs.
React, TypeScript, wallet integrations, real-time data, API design, and end-to-end type safety.
Observability, compliance, testing, performance, disaster recovery, and operational controls.
Browse all 105 long-form technical articles, organized into five engineering collections.
What clients need
Financial and pharmaceutical institutions need senior software engineering and technical leadership when the hard parts of the platform matter most: architecture that holds under audit, security-critical delivery, and hands-on ownership through production—not advice that stops at the slide deck.