About
An enthusiast about everything, but mostly great software.
- Determinate computing @ kai.nix.fun
- Ancient Greek library @ lyceum.quest
- Bitcoin Lightning payments @ voltage.cloud
- Bitcoin privacy & scalability @ payjoin.org
Highlights
- Currently building Kai, a friendly frontend for determinate computing
- Built one of the world’s most comprehensive web interfaces & open source databases for Ancient Greek
- Built conllu.lyceum.quest: an open source, accountless, comprehensive PWA visualizer for CoNLL-U files
- First Place Team and later mentor & volunteer @ MIT Bitcoin Hackathon
- Payjoin contributor: Presented Async Payjoin @ TABconf, wrote payjoin.org, and UX for
payjoin-cli bitcoin-qr: A zero-dependency, zero-framework QR code web component for Bitcoin on-chain, Lightning, and unified BIP-21 payments.- Set up internationalization for Alby wallet to allow multiple languages
- Created roc-overlay to help members of the Roc community install and pin nightly compiler builds reproducibly with Nix.
Work
I started out by working at Chick-fil-A in the kitchen, then as a programmer for corporate.
Most of my work since then has been in Bitcoin: one of the most fascinating technological developments of our time and the most promising of the emergent currencies.
I work at Voltage in pursuit of that curiosity, working on streamlining payments via the Lightning Network.
I also work on numerous Bitcoin side projects, primarily Payjoin: a novel method that makes transactions more scalable, cheap, private, efficient, and fun.
It is believed that if we can get even a small percentage of the total number of Bitcoin transactions to use Payjoin, we can break the most common metric used to spy on people today: The Common-input Ownership Heuristic.
Interests
- Free and Open Source Software (FOSS): NixOS, Roc, Bitcoin, Lightning Network, Payjoin, Linux, GrapheneOS, VPNs, etc.
- History: Ancient Greece, Rome, American Revolution, etc.
- Biographies: Adams, Hamilton, Washington, Franklin, Oppenheimer, Ramanujan and more
- Philosophy, psychology, Christianity: Influenced by Cicero, Nietzsche, Karl Popper, Dostoevsky, Will Durant, Oliver Sacks, Jung, Seneca, and more. Attempting to read Kierkegaard, but finding it impenetrably difficult yet joyful.
- Languages: I’m currently learning Ancient Greek.
- Fun: Bass guitar
Elsewhere
More: books that impacted me, talks & events, contributions, technology I like, and old projects.