I'm Red
I write code and research – primarily in the crypto space. At the core of nearly all that I do is complexity theory. This, of course, led me to crypto.
Cryptography is one of the rare phenomena in which breaking things is harder than building them. It resists entropy – unlike most systems, entities, and generally all things, which are easier to destroy than construct. This asymmetry flips the usual dynamic: defending is exponentially cheaper than attacking. It may be a feature of ignorance – but it holds until P=NP.
What's more: cryptography resists economies of scale. A student with a laptop has access to the same level of security as a nation state. This equal access makes it inherently egalitarian, a tool for freedom. These properties carry over into cryptocurrency, where coordination doesn't require permission.
Crypto is a sandbox for testing new systems – financial, political, economic. Harberger taxes, quadratic voting, and other mechanisms once confined to theory are now live experiments. Social coordination is the core value prop of crypto. BTC isn't the whole primitive – it's just the first implementation of it, as DePIN money.
This is why I build BTC-focused products in the crypto space.
Experience
Technical – Applied
Smart Contract Development: Application-layer development on Ethereum (Solidity, Hardhat) and Solana (Rust, Anchor). Limited experience with Bitcoin (Bitcoin Script, Rust, Cairo); but I swear building user applications with Bitcoin somehow always turns into more of a javascript project. Limited experience with Starknet (Cairo) and Aztec (Noir).
Systems Engineering: Experience with Rust and C++. FPGAs in a previous life. Avoiding manual memory allocation at all costs.
Data Engineering: Designed ingestion pipelines, database schemas, and backend infrastructure. Fluent in Python for data extraction and API/RPC integration.
Data Visualization: Built analytics dashboards and visual reporting tools, usually for onchain metrics..
Frontend Engineering: Experience with modern frameworks (React, Next.js, Tailwind) and component-driven architecture. Typescript > Javascript. Integrated complex data pipelines and smart contract logic into responsive frontend applications. I am under no illusions that I'm not a designer; it'll work but I can't promise it'll be pretty.
DevOps: Operated validator/miner infrastructure for 10+ blockchains, including block-building on 5+ networks. Hands-on with node deployment and uptime automation. Experience with both bare-metal (primarily at-home scale hardware) and cloud (primarily AWS).
Technical – Theoretical
Blockchain Computer Science: Strong grounding in base layer architecture, privacy protocols, and consensus mechanisms. Deep familiarity with Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana from both hands-on development and conceptual design perspectives. My work at Bitcoin Layers has focused heavily on Bitcoin scaling technologies – including L2s, BitVM, and expressive scripting via specific Bitcoin opcodes. As a former research analyst at Messari, I also developed a comprehensive understanding of alternative architectures like Cosmos, Cardano, Monero, and the XRP Ledger, with a focus on VMs, consensus models, modular design, and privacy tradeoffs.
Crypto-native Metrics: Experience designing and interpreting onchain data beyond surface-level charts. Understand which metrics signal real adoption, coordination, and economic activity – and which are sybilled noise. Not all metrics are created equal. Within the small group of useful metrics, not all are worth considering for inter-network comparisons and are only useful for intra-network analysis due to VM nuance.
Non-Technical
Community & Events: Stewarded several irl communities by organizing, hosting, and lecturing at dozens of educational crypto events.
Hobbyist chess, neuroscience, and urban planning enjoyoor.
