Hacker & Entrepreneur

The best way to predict the future is to invent it. - Alan Kay

Ongoing Work

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Open Source Observer

Open Source Observer is a free analytics suite that helps funders measure the impact of open source software contributions to the health of their ecosystem.

• Co-founder

Website, GitHub, Twitter

Hypercerts

To solve the challenges we face this century, we need scalable and sustainable financing models for public goods that reward contributors for the positive impact they create.

Hypercerts are a new protocol for funding and rewarding positive impact. Every hypercert is a public claim on a discrete piece of work and impact resulting from that work. Projects can create hypercerts and distribute them to contributors. Funders can own hypercert fractions — and the rights that come with them. Impact evaluators can create value for projects and funders by assessing the quality of hypercerts and offering ratings.

Hypercerts create interoperability by serving as a single, open, shared, decentralized database for impact claims and funding mechanisms. This allows funders and projects to create a scalable, interoperable and transparent funding environment for innovative public goods.

• Co-founder
• Head of Engineering
• Technical Advisory Committee Chair

Website, GitHub, Twitter,

MASQ Foundation

The MASQ Foundation exists to build and support security and privacy for the public good. We research, engineer, and promote widely-accessible technologies that protect individual users’ security and privacy in both the digital and physical worlds.

• Co-Founder
• President

Website, GitHub, Twitter

Selected Press

• Wired: “How a Startup is Using the Blockchain to Protect Your Privacy”
• Wall Street Journal: “Oasis Labs Building Cloud Computing on Blockchain With $45 Million”
• Forbes: “Big Hitter Crypto Funds Pile Into Privacy-Enhanced Smart Contract Startup Oasis Labs”
• MIT Technology Review: “Meet Oasis Labs, the blockchain startup Silicon Valley is buzzing about”
• New York Times: “How the Blockchain Could Break Big Tech’s Hold on A.I.”
• Time: “Google Unveils Tools to Access Web From Repressive Countries”
• Mashable: “Google’s uProxy: A Peer-to-Peer Gateway to Internet Freedom”
• Engadget: “Google announces uProxy: internet censorship avoidance in a browser extension”
• NBC: “’Running battle’: How Google hopes to beat countries cracking down on Internet freedom”