You are looking at 25 years of software that works: six under a Top Secret clearance at SBA and State, enterprise before that, and AI infrastructure I built and operate today.
I founded PerkOS to bring AI teams to small businesses at prices they can afford: a workspace where a business hires AI teammates in one click, running on infrastructure I designed, built, and operate. I founded zkNexus. Both are active.
Most of what I build is open: 165 own public repositories, three agent runtimes packaged as container images, and systems that run in government, enterprise, and onchain environments.
Left the clearance job to build AI-agent infrastructure full time: Next.js and TypeScript product surfaces, an OpenAI-compatible LLM gateway, provisioning on AWS ECS Fargate, Stripe and onchain billing. Product decisions, code, and operations, end to end.
Senior software engineer for the U.S. federal government. The Small Business Administration from 2019 to 2021, then the Department of State from 2021 to 2025: C#, .NET, Azure, and identity work with OKTA, Azure AD and OAuth. Systems where a mistake is expensive.
165 public repositories built alongside the clearance job. Solidity, TypeScript, payment rails. A blockchain credential from MIT Professional Education.
Six years on corporate infrastructure at JACER. Five as lead developer at Contensive, on e-commerce and mission-critical systems, owning requirements through post-production support.
Analyst programmer at the National Office of Electoral Processes, database engineer at the Ministry of Economy and Finance, software architect at AVATAR. I learned to build inside under-resourced institutions.
I was a contractor engineer inside the Small Business Administration when the Paycheck Protection Program launched: forgivable loans that decided whether a restaurant, a shop, or a two-person agency survived the year. The systems were not built for it.
The SBA normally backs about $25 billion a year in 7(a) loans. PPP asked the same infrastructure to move that in days, roughly fifty times normal capacity. At that volume the hard part is never the feature. It is consistency under load, recovery you can trust, and designing for the failure rather than the demo, because a partial write is somebody's payroll.
Every one of those millions of clicks was an owner trying to keep their business alive. That is the same person I build for now.
Timeline corroborated by contemporaneous reporting, including American Banker, "After opening-day fiasco, SBA upgrades lender portal with Amazon assist."
Working prototypes under 48-hour deadlines: AI agents, payments, identity. A prize at each of the three in-person ETHGlobal hackathons in 2026 so far.