I build agent systems and developer tools for crypto and DeFi.

Agents are turning into a real software interface, not just chat boxes. The hard part is the same hard part protocols had: predictable execution, clear interfaces, composability, and costs you can reason about.

A lot of AI tooling still feels like a demo. I care about the layer underneath: execution systems, evals, and tools that let small teams ship without building an internal platform first.

Crypto keeps showing up here for practical reasons: payments, coordination, settlement, and verifiable execution. I stay close to protocol design, incentive mechanics, and DeFi primitives because they give agents something real to do.

I usually start with three questions: what shape should the system have, who is rewarded for doing what, and where does the leverage come from? If those are wrong, more code just makes the wrong thing bigger.

• Architecture Get the shape right before adding scale.
• Incentives Make the honest path the easy path.
• Leverage Build small tools that keep paying rent.

I like simple mechanisms, narrow launches, and code an operator can understand without a backstory. Human or agent, same standard.

• 2025 – now Independent, agent systems, crypto and DeFi Private builds and advisory for teams working on agent execution, evals, developer tooling, and crypto and DeFi coordination, payments, and markets.
• 2021 – 2025 Zeitgeist, Founder & CEO Started and led a blockchain prediction market protocol from early mechanism design through mainnet, hiring, product direction, and ecosystem work.
• 2019 – 2021 Web3 Foundation, Technical Educator Technical education and developer support during the Polkadot & Kusama launch years. Wrote materials, ran workshops, and taught at events including Web3 Summit 2019 in Berlin and University of Tokyo in 2020.
• 2017 – 2019 ChronoLogic, Smart Contract Engineer Ethereum smart contract work around scheduled transactions, including Ethereum Alarm Clock, and related on-chain infrastructure.