"Simplicity is the prerequisite for reliability."
— Edsger W. Dijkstra
Senior Blockchain Architect, Distributed Systems Engineer, and Lead SDET specializing in regulated DeFi, atomic cross-chain settlement (HTLC & DvP), self-custody cryptography, and autonomous AI agents.
Obsessed with zero-trust architecture, mathematical correctness, automated formal verification, and engineering high-throughput infrastructure that operates flawlessly under financial-grade load.
- Cross-Chain DeFi & Bridges — atomic swaps (DvP), HTLC escrow bridges (Canton ↔ EVM, TRON, Solana), and automated market makers (AMM / dynamic spread).
- Quality Engineering & SDET — bulletproof test automation suites (Vitest, Jest, Playwright, Synpress), incremental mutation coverage gates, and AST-level static architecture analyzers.
- Self-Custody & Cryptography — WebAuthn/Passkey zero-knowledge challenges, BIP-39 mnemonic key derivation, Ed25519/Secp256k1 signing engines, and Threshold Signature Schemes (TSS).
- Distributed Backend & Microservices — event-driven NestJS & Rust architectures, BullMQ queues, transactional outboxes, gRPC, and PostgreSQL optimization.
- Autonomous AI Swarms — Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, multi-agent closed-loop pipelines, automated code reviews, and LangGraph workflows.
| Project | What I do there | Highlights |
|---|---|---|
| OpenVINO GenAI | Tool-call parsing and streaming fixes for Intel GPU / NPU inference | #4549 ✅ merged · #4547 · #4544 in review |
| Unsloth | OpenVINO export and Intel Arc chat in Unsloth Studio | #11907 ✅ merged · #12266 ✅ merged · #12168 in review |
| MLX | Author of basalt: a pure-Swift local LLM server on MLX / Metal with OpenAI, Anthropic and MCP APIs | Swift MLX Apple Silicon Homebrew |
| Project | Description | Tech Stack |
|---|---|---|
| flactotext | AI-powered meeting intelligence platform: voice recording, high-fidelity lossless FLAC transcription, semantic search, and automated executive summaries. | TypeScript Python Whisper FastAPI LLM MCP |



