I've spent 15 years building at the intersection of technology, communication, and community — from founding a tech policy program in DC, to co-founding a venture-backed decentralized marketplace, to writing about Bitcoin before most people had heard of it. Today I build AI-powered tools and write about emerging technology, regularly reaching the front page of Hacker News.
Experience
Co-Founder & Head of Operations
OB1 (OpenBazaar)- Co-founded and helped build OpenBazaar, an open-source decentralized marketplace using Bitcoin for peer-to-peer commerce
- Raised $9M in venture capital from Andreessen Horowitz and Union Square Ventures
- Served as developer advocate and documentation lead, managing a global open-source community
- Featured in Wired, Forbes, Yahoo Finance; presented at conferences in Prague, Guatemala, New Hampshire
Senior Policy Analyst & Research Fellow
Stand Together- Founded and directed the technology policy program
- Conducted research on how technology policy affects individual well-being
- Created the Crony Chronicles project, a public awareness initiative on political cronyism
Freelance Technical Writer & Voiceover Artist
- Technical tutorials and educational content for open-source projects
- Recorded and published audiobooks on Audible
- Blog writing with multiple Hacker News front-page hits
Selected Writing & Research
o3 Beats a Master-Level GeoGuessr Player — Even with Fake EXIF Data#1 on Hacker News
My Grandma Was a Fed — Lessons from Digitizing Hundreds of Hours of ChildhoodHacker News front page
Visualizing Why Bitcoin Can't Work Over HF RadioInteractive visualization + video
Artificial Advocates: Biasing Democratic Feedback Using AI3rd place, Apart Hackathon — led to Apart Labs Fellowship
Bitcoin BeginnerOne of the first books published about Bitcoin (2013)
Breakdown of All Satoshi's WritingsAnalysis with accompanying video
Technical Skills
PythonJavaScriptReactNode.jsPostgreSQLLinuxGitAI/LLM IntegrationWebRTCSelf-hosted InfrastructureTechnical WritingDeveloper Advocacy
Education
General Assembly — Full-Stack Software Engineering Immersive2024
Alfred University — B.A. Political Science2010
Presentations
Hacker's Congress, Paralelní Polis (Prague) · CryptoEcon Conference (Saigon) · Hillsdale College Free Market Forum · PorcFest XIII (New Hampshire) · Universidad Francisco Marroquín (Guatemala) · Liberty.me