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Co-Founder

Denver-based software engineer and open source contributor focused on AI agent infrastructure and security. Creator of stereOS, a Linux-based operating system for running AI agents with security hardening, and tapes, an open-source telemetry tool for transparent AI agent monitoring.

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Engineering March 27, 2026 · 5 min read

Deep dive: using tapes for agent datasets

How we built tapes to be a durable, cryptographically secure agent dataset

Engineering February 27, 2026 · 3 min read

Introducing stereOS: An operating system for your agent

stereOS is a NixOS based operating system designed for AI agents to be secure, self-managed, and efficient

Engineering February 11, 2026 · 2 min read

Solving Cross-Platform CGO Builds with Zig and Dagger

How we solved the pain of cross-compiling Go projects with C dependencies by combining Zig as a drop-in compiler, Dagger for reproducible builds, and osxcross for macOS targets.

Engineering February 10, 2026 · 3 min read

Introducing tapes: Transparent Telemetry for AI Agents

We built tapes to solve the observability gap in AI agent infrastructure. Every session recorded, every decision searchable, every conversation replayable.