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I turn complex distributed systems into simple, reliable APIs.

Over the last seven years, I've built routing protocols, data pipelines, platform automations, privacy-preserving mechanisms, and benchmarking harnesses. I've run out of inodes, seen packet corruption in real time, and learned why SSH breaks when you chmod 777 ~.

Currently I work at Cloudflare on the Privacy Edge team. I wrote and deployed the first Rust implementation for Web Bot Auth, powering Cloudflare's agent detection.

I care about good abstractions. I like getting close to the bits, understanding how things behave under real constraints, and refining interfaces until they feel inevitable. But formal elegance feels artificial to me. There is no better feeling than actually solving someone’s problem.