Senior Full-Stack / AI Engineer · web platforms · LLM & media-model products · agent safety tooling · Cloudflare edge · blockchain infrastructure
⚓ Anchorage demo · 🧪 KDF WASM Playground · 💼 LinkedIn · 📧 Email
I'm a software engineer with 8+ years building production systems end to end: user-facing apps, developer tooling, content infrastructure, and the CI/CD and edge infra beneath them.
For close to eight years (2018-2025) I grew through five roles at Komodo, an open-source blockchain platform (core technology acquired by Gleec, 2025): documentation, support, QA/DevOps, frontend, and platform engineering. The product was a non-custodial multi-chain wallet and a cross-chain atomic-swap DEX: people held their own keys and traded directly across blockchains, with no exchange in the middle. I was the technical point of contact for the 20+ centralized exchanges integrating Komodo and its Smart Chains, bridging product, QA, docs, and support across releases. Now I build AI products.
⚓ Anchorage · source · API reference
Open-source enterprise safety layer for AI agent workflows, built on Mastra, so an agent's outward actions wait for human approval and leave an audit trail. RBAC, per-action audit, egress and write-permission policy, and Cloudflare-native durable execution: a run suspends at an approval step, survives a server restart, and resumes from its snapshot, and CI proves that on the real Workers runtime. Apache-2.0; three libraries on npm, all published with provenance.
🧪 KDF WASM Playground · source
Komodo's atomic-swap engine, running in a browser tab. A 30+ MB WebAssembly build behind a service-worker compress/fetch/decompress pipeline: 1.1 s cold, 231 ms on return. Integrators, QA, and docs readers fire real RPC calls against it with no local build.
- 📝 Writing and running a technical site, built solo on Astro + Cloudflare Workers: "Ask the Field Notes", a live hybrid-RAG search over the essays (BM25 + Vectorize + Reciprocal Rank Fusion, streamed cited answers), a citation-gated multi-agent content pipeline behind 154 authored posts drawing on 537 arXiv papers, and a Lighthouse (CWV) performance budget enforced in CI.
- 🧰 Open-sourcing the layers underneath the agents. understudy is a model-free browser-execution substrate: it drives an already-logged-in Chromium tab over
chrome.debugger/CDP behind approval gates, with credentials resolved service-side so they never reach a model's context. vectorless-rag answers grounded questions over a local PDF corpus without embeddings or a vector database, routing each request through a LangGraph agent and expanding a document tree so every citation resolves to a page. Both MIT, both sole-authored; understudy's protocol and connector ship on npm. - 🧱 Then building products on those libraries rather than around them. An agent and capability cloud gives a hosted agent a priced, metered, governed way to call outside services: a control plane owning definitions and deployments, my own flowsafe Durable Object runner as the only thing that executes a run, a budget-authorizer Durable Object counting in-flight reservations against caps behind a kill switch, and a remote MCP server on the gateway itself. A separate shadow-mode AML alert-triage platform takes privacy-masked monitoring and sanctions alerts and returns evidence-cited disposition recommendations while taking no regulated action: a deterministic rules engine runs the mandatory hard stops before any model call, so a model can never recommend closure over a triggered stop, and a human analyst makes every binding decision.
- 💳 Built a complete stablecoin payment gateway and operated it end to end on a live public testnet, for a regulated fiat-backed stablecoin on an EVM ZK-rollup L2. Hosted checkout, a merchant SDK and a WooCommerce plugin, signed webhooks, an event-sourced invoice machine over a hash-chained double-entry ledger, custody with maker-checker payouts, KYB/KYT and sanctions screening, and the Solidity contracts underneath, tested in Foundry with a gas-drift gate in CI. My own load test against a single instance held 2,500 concurrent checkout sessions at p95 280 ms.
- 🎙️ Wrote a hands-free voice agent on Cloudflare Workers: one click opens a continuous browser call, speech recognition through Workers AI decides when a turn ends so nobody presses a button, and talking over the reply aborts the model and speech calls mid-turn, dropping audio already in flight so it stops rather than speaking over the person.
- ⚡ Building AI products at an early-stage venture as lead frontend engineer & core backend engineer: a real-time, multimodal generative-AI web app (streaming chat + image / video / voice over self-hosted open-source models), with SSE streaming UIs, a Radix design system, and hardened FastAPI backends (BFF cookie auth, CSRF/SSRF hardening, S3-backed media pipelines).
- 🤖 Leaning on multi-agent AI workflows (Claude Code: skills, hooks, subagents) to move fast without dropping the quality bar.
- 🌐 Shipped Komodo's public web estate across 5+ launches and rebrands: 10+ properties, 120k+ monthly visits, 1M+ monthly Google Search impressions.
- 🛡️ Led the user-facing response to the 2019 Agama supply-chain attack and coordinated fund recovery for thousands of users after a ~$13M white-hat sweep.
- 📈 Built a DeFi markets dashboard charting 1000+ trading pairs; also a docs platform with MDX source and a Next.js build-and-deploy system that lints all the docs, adds attribution based on git commit history, and more.
- 🔗 Ran a multi-region dPoW notary-node stack helping protect 15+ Smart Chains against 51% attacks.
Across those five roles I also:
- 🛂 wrote a geographic-compliance Cloudflare Worker (TypeScript/Hono) screening 2M+ requests/month against a 34-jurisdiction policy, with fail-closed defaults;
- 💬 built the in-app feedback Worker (parallel Trello/Matrix/Backblaze fan-out) that cut response times by more than 50%;
- 🔄 was users' go-to when a cross-chain atomic swap stalled: diagnosed the failure, recovered stuck funds, and wrote the guides that prevented the next one;
- 🗳️ won 5+ community elections to keep operating that dPoW stack, a consensus-critical seat, and built the on-chain governance and vote-tally dashboards the elections used;
- 🧑🏫 taught junior engineers blockchain fundamentals throughout the KDF WASM Playground build;
- 🧰 sole-authored the KDF WASM RPC bridge (Node.js/Puppeteer) so browser-only builds run under existing JSON-RPC tooling like a native daemon, and wrote 7 technical articles on the official blog.
Languages
Frontend
Backend & Data
Infra & Cloud
AI & Automation
| Project | What it is | Stack |
|---|---|---|
| anchorage · live ↗ · API docs ↗ | The guardrails an agent runs behind: connector permission manifests, a React approval dashboard, an in-browser control room replaying attack scenarios against the real evaluators, an audit stream exported to a SIEM | TypeScript · Mastra · Durable Objects |
| understudy · npm ↗ | Executes what an agent decides: an encrypted credential vault, a dry run that never dispatches the real write, refs that fail closed against a replaced tab, per-tenant isolation where a cross-tenant request returns 404 | TypeScript · MV3 · CDP |
| vectorless-rag | The parts that keep a research app honest: model-written SQL validated before it reaches Postgres, content-addressed artifacts with audited activation, a budgeted run's worst-case cost reserved before any paid model call | Python · FastAPI · LangGraph |
| react-komodefi-wasm · live ↗ | Zero-install sandbox for the Komodo DeFi RPC API: hot-swappable engine versions, request save/load, log download, seed-phrase import | TypeScript · Next.js · WASM |
| claude-config | Plan-then-execute, multi-agent Claude Code workflow: deterministic scaffolding + quality-gate loops so smaller models ship large features | Python · Claude Code |
| create-smartchain | One-command Komodo Smart Chain test networks: auto-generated configs, idempotent lifecycle | Shell |
| komodo-install-explorer | Automated Komodo Smart Chain block-explorer install | Shell |
| komodo-docs-mdx | MDX→Next.js docs platform powering komodoplatform.com/en/docs: custom remark/rehype, generated API samples, in-browser fuzzy search | TypeScript · MDX |
| node-komodo-rpc · npm ↗ | Promise-based, multi-instance Komodo daemon RPC client | JavaScript |
Published by me on npm: @proofoftech/breakwater · @proofoftech/flowsafe · @proofoftech/fleet-control · @understudy/protocol · @understudy/connector · node-komodo-rpc
Komodo ecosystem (KomodoPlatform / GLEECBTC), merged contributions: komodo-defi-framework · dPoW · NotaryNodes · coins · komodo-docs-mdx · hw-kmd-wallet
