About

I am a systems thinker with an inconvenient habit of asking, “Why does it work this way?” and an even more inconvenient habit of trying to fix it. My path has moved through engineering, technology, product leadership, entrepreneurship, research, and education. The titles changed; the pattern did not. I explore complex systems, connect ideas that were apparently never introduced to each other, and turn ambiguity into something people can actually use.

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Maker History

  • Synthora
    SynthoraTransparent investing decisions, built in your browser
    Oct 2026
  • GlyphMend
    GlyphMendFaithful PDF reconstruction for humans and AI systems.
    Sep 2026
  • SmartPack
    SmartPackPrivate, cross-platform archiving powered by Rust.
    Sep 2026
  • ArcadianAI
    ArcadianAIAI Employees for Your Safety.
    Dec 2024
  • 🎉
    Joined Product HuntDecember 4th, 2024

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1mo ago

Synthora - Transparent investing decisions, built in your browser

Synthora is a transparent investment decision-support tool for conservative portfolios. Track what you own, plan new contributions, test strategies against observed history, explore uncertainty with Monte Carlo scenarios, and inspect the data and assumptions behind every result. Personal financial data stays local by default.
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2mo ago

SmartPack - Lossless archiving. Zero 3rd-party dep. Less wasted work.

SmartPack is a lossless archiver built entirely with Python’s standard library. It adapts compression per block, skips incompressible data, deduplicates repeated blocks, optimizes zero-filled data, and verifies integrity with SHA-256. In my first benchmark, 64 MB of duplicate-heavy data became 8 MB vs 37 MB with xz, while mixed-data compression came within ~0.2% of xz’s size at about 3× the packing speed. No third-party dependencies.
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2mo ago

GlyphMend - Faithful document reconstruction from PDF to Text.

Faithful document reconstruction from PDF to structured Markdown. GlyphMend is a local-first, structure-aware PDF reconstruction toolkit. Its primary output is deterministic, inspectable Markdown; DOCX is an export format layered on top of that canonical Markdown.
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