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.
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), Aztec (Noir), and more.
Systems Engineering: Experience with Rust, C, and C++. FPGAs in a previous life. Avoiding manual memory allocation at all costs.
Data Engineering: Designed ingestion pipelines and database schemas. Fluent in Python for data extraction and API/RPC integration.
Data Visualization: Built analytics dashboards and visual reporting tools, mostly 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.
