I am currently in the middle of a life long exploration to deeply understand the intersections of complex systems and the maximization of their positive impacts on humans. To say this another way, I am of the mindset that in order for humans to build the these large systems, think of the Internet, Healthcare, or even putting humans on Mars. We must be both rooted in practical engineering and a romantic vision of an entity that has the largest net positive impact on our fellow humans. To take this farther, one cannot predict or try to leap forward humanity without accounting for pragmatic deployment of inventions or ideas. I like to call this ideology Pragmatic futurism.

if a philosophical theory does not contribute directly to social progress then it is not worth much

• https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pragmatism/-

This belief originates from over two decades of experience building, researching, and philosophizing the complex systems I interact with, live in, and want to grow.

Co-founder & CEO of OpsCompanion

I am the co-founder and CEO of OpsCompanion, an AI security company. We build Standpipe, which runs on the device, shows a company every AI tool operating across its machines, and governs what each one is allowed to see, send, and do.

Sovereign AI means you own and you know the data going into a model and the data coming out of it, no matter the model type. That is the whole definition. The useful way to hold it is as a supply chain problem, the same way you would think about anything else where integrity matters, because if you cannot account for every step then you cannot promise that no one else has been in the chain. We spent about twenty years pretending this was fine for software and got a world built out of libraries maintained by one exhausted person on a weekend. AI multiplies that, and then adds a context window that can be steered by a single changed word.

The part I care about most is what this does to ordinary people. A capable model attached to your actual life, your money and your health and your family, is worth an enormous amount, and getting there means handing it your whole context. Nobody should do that when the box belongs to someone else. Security is the precondition for AI reaching regular people at all, and right now it is the least glamorous and least funded corner of the field.

I wrote the argument up in Go West, Nerd. on June 2nd, 2026. Google published Beyond Zero in ACM Queue two weeks later, making the case that zero trust falls apart under AI agents and authorization has to shrink down to the individual action. Cloudflare followed in August with the Agent Access Model, making the case that enforcement has to live in the harness and the network instead of the prompt. Both are right and both are worth your time. Where I go further is on ownership, because a rented enforcement layer is still rented, and that is why Standpipe enforces on hardware you already own.

Building Large System With Impact

The most impactful system most people think of to date is the Internet. In my role as a Senior Software engineer at Cloudflare, I help build and maintain many of the core primitives software systems that have become synonymous for the Internet. Specifically, I work on the R2 team, which is the object storage platform for all of Cloudflare's products and many impactful companies we as all use.

"Billions and billions (of logs)"

• https://blog.cloudflare.com/billions-and-billions-of-logs-scaling-ai-gateway-with-the-cloudflare/

Past technical experiences

• An original member of the engineering team at Balto AI.
• Consultant at Kicker.AI, and Utopia Labs(Recently acquired by Coinbase)
• Boeing, Apache Training Simulators

Romantic Visionary Pursuits

Recently, I have had the honor to join my friends' movie production company.
There is a currently a movie in post production that I cannot talk about too much now but please keep a look out in the future.

With that said, I will leave all of you with something I told the crew during night of filming.

All forms of Art make life worth living.

General Business

Business, engineering, and artistic ideas are extremely fascinating individually. It is when they come together to positively move humanity forward is what sparks curiosity and a sense of transcendence in me.

While not exhaustive here is a list of the various business related things I am deeply passionate about:

• Arch Grants, a non profit economic development organization to help spur innovation St. Louis, Missouri.
• Advised the technical direction and implementations for various startups in St. Louis, Missouri.
• Technical due diligence for Venture Capital firms.

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