Co-founder, COO & acting CTO at Odysee, 2021–2026. Sixteen years across engineering, product, and operations before that.
I’m a generalist. For about sixteen years I’ve worked across engineering, product, operations, and direct client and user support, mostly at small companies where those roles overlap. Doing all of it, and talking to users directly, is what taught me how and what to build, with real taste and care for UX.
Most recently I co-founded Odysee, a video platform, and ran it as COO while acting as CTO. We grew to tens of millions of users. The job covered strategy, hiring, leading all the technical teams, and vendor integrations + management, plus a fair amount of product, design, engineering, and code.
Before that I spent seven years building SAP business-intelligence systems for the U.S. Army. Not glamorous, but it taught me how to finish what I start.
Lately I mostly build on my own: a Zcash wallet, a cross-platform disk and monitoring tool, and various experiments with AI agents and crypto. I’m also building something in stealth: a social aggregator that ties together chat, community, AI, and content.
Reads the NTFS file table directly instead of walking folders, so it maps a full drive in under a minute. Shows what’s taking up space and helps you find duplicates.
A Zcash wallet that runs in the browser and uses passkeys instead of a seed phrase. Sends shielded payments and does cross-chain swaps through NEAR Intents.
A dashboard for Zcash and CYPH: live prices, portfolio tracking, shielded-pool flows, and other on-chain tools, with a customizable UI.
For logging pour-over coffee: recipes, brew notes, and gear, with a feed to compare with other people. I built it because I needed it.
Co-founded the company and ran it day to day as COO while also acting as CTO. I set technical direction, managed the team and our vendors, helped hire, and kept writing code.
Took over operations when LBRY split into Odysee. I ran the support and product teams and set roadmaps across the web app, mobile, Roku, and accounts, while traffic peaked around 35 million monthly users.
Ran support and community for LBRY across every channel we had, through the stretch where it went from a few hundred daily users to millions. Tested features, filed bugs, and wrote the monthly development updates.
Led a small team building SAP business-intelligence systems for Army ammunition programs. Ran two major platform upgrades with no downtime and finished a stalled contractor project.
Proud husband and father to two girls.
I drink too much pour-over coffee. I built an app for it.
I read and stay on top of all things tech, AI, and crypto.
I was interviewed by the SEC for a full day during the LBRY case. Lawyers prepped me beforehand. Stressful, but eye-opening.
In 2014, bad security habits got my crypto wallet hacked. I went down the rabbit hole and tracked the guy down myself. It was a few thousand dollars then; it would be millions today. I let it go, but learned a ton in the process.
At LBRY I once fought off someone 51%-attacking the chain, renting hash power to make the attack cost more until it stopped being worth it for him.
I take my lawn far too seriously. Weed-free and properly nourished, always.
My first-ever backpacking trip ended with a bear taking over our lean-to, eating all my food, and drinking my rum.