I'm Red

I write code and research – primarily in the crypto space. At the core of nearly all that I do is my interest in 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. This is unlike most systems, entities, and generally things, which are easier to destroy than construct. This asymmetry flips the usual dynamic: defending becomes exponentially cheaper than attacking. Due to this feature, 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.

Cryptography on its own is pretty neat, but what's more interesting is the human systems you can found on its math-based trust. In legacy systems, you trust that your counterparty won't cheat. In crypto systems, you can know that your counterparty can't cheat. The student of Systemantics understands the gravity of this.

Crypto is a sandbox for iterating new systems – financial, political, economic. Harberger taxes, quadratic voting, and other mechanisms once confined to theory are now live experiments. Cryptographic trust is the compliment to the internet's reach, which is why social scaling is the core value prop of crypto. BTC isn't the whole primitive – it's just the first implementation of crypto, as DePIN money.

This is why I build BTC-focused products in the crypto space. Maybe this makes me a BTC asset-maxi.

Experience

Data Engineering: Data ingestion pipelines, db schemas, and server functions. ELT. RDS Postgres for real things and Supabase for hobby projects. As for data visualization, I also take it end-to-end with analytics dashboards and visual reporting tools (mostly for onchain metrics).

Smart Contract Development: Application-layer development on Ethereum VM (Solidity, Hardhat) and Solana VM (Rust, Anchor). Limited experience with Bitcoin (Bitcoin Script, Rust, Cairo). Limited experience with Starknet (Cairo), Aztec (Noir), and more.

Systems Engineering: Experience with Rust, C, and C++. Limited FPGA experience. My degree was primarily in C and C++.

Frontend Engineering: React, Next, Typescript, and Tailwind. Often working with data visualization or smart contract integration.

DevOps: Operated node infrastructure for 10+ blockchains, including block-building on 5+ networks (PoW and PoS). Hands-on with node deployment and uptime automation. Experience with both bare-metal (primarily at-home scale hardware) and cloud (primarily AWS).

Blockchain Research: Base layer architectures, privacy protocols, and consensus mechanisms. Most familiar with Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana. Secondarily versed in Bitcoin scaling layers and alt-L1s I covered at Messari: Cosmos, Cardano, Monero, and the XRP Ledger

Crypto-Native Metrics: Understanding which metrics signal real adoption, coordination, and economic activity – and which are sybilled noise. Within the small group of useful metrics, not all are worth considering for inter or intra-network comparisons due to VM nuance.

Electrical Engineering: Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering from the University of Miami. Circuit theory, electronics, and all that fun.

Community & Events: Stewarded several irl communities by organizing, hosting, and lecturing at dozens of educational crypto events.

Hobby-Level Involvement: Enjoyoor of chess, urban planning, and neuroscience.