Gardnerville, Nevada
I build decentralized platforms — the encryption, the storage, the billing, and the apps on top. Currently Senior Engineering Manager at Ridgeline, and the sole engineer behind Muhkoo, a zero-knowledge application platform.
Platform, apps, clients
The platform
A zero-knowledge application platform: authentication that never sees a password, end-to-end encrypted messaging and storage, a sharded database, serverless functions, AI agents, hosting, and metered billing. Built and operated solo.
ZK proofs · Double Ratchet · Durable Objects · R2 · Stripe
Transcodes video in the browser and streams it back end-to-end encrypted.
ffmpeg.wasm · HLS · hls.js
Chunked, erasure-coded file storage the server cannot read.
AES-256-GCM · Reed–Solomon
Forward-secret messaging with server-blind group keys and offline sync.
Double Ratchet · CRDT · IndexedDB
Four businesses shipped end-to-end — design, build, domain, and delivery.
Static · Serverless functions · Email
A typed client library published to npm, and the reference that teaches it.
TypeScript · npm · Astro Starlight
Provision a backend, deploy a client, and manage domains without leaving the terminal.
Node · Zero-build ESM · PKCE loopback auth
2017 — present
Jul 2026 — Present
Senior Engineering Manager, Client Management
Leading the team behind Client Management — the entry point into Ridgeline's cloud platform for investment management, covering client and portfolio onboarding, the investor 360 view, and partner relationships. Own delivery across the full stack, and the culture around it: teaching, transparency, and modern practice — including AI-assisted workflows — without moving the quality bar.
React · TypeScript · Java · Kotlin · GraphQL · AWS
Dec 2024 — Jul 2026
R&D Platform Lead
Architecting a platform-as-a-service for edge-based decentralized data centers. Built a data-ingestion path that scales with edge growth and has no single point of failure, and authored patents for a decentralized developer platform.
Jun 2022 — Nov 2024
VP of Engineering & Co-Founder
Took an end-to-end encryption product from idea to market and to government customers. Authored multiple patents and raised $3M to fund the build.
Dec 2021 — Jun 2022
Chief Technology Officer
Architected the core end-to-end encryption protocol, its APIs, and the SDKs customers built against.
Jan 2017 — Dec 2021
Software Engineering Manager / Director
Led corporate IAM for GDPR, SOC 2, and Schrems II alongside service regionalization — data and API residency that mitigated $40M in annual fines. Designed early versions of the Flex API, now Programmable Contact Center, and supported the Paste 2 design system.
Depth, not a keyword list
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Open to interesting problems — platform architecture, cryptography, or a product that needs to get built. Tell me what you're working on.
Gardnerville, Nevada · Remote