Ex-Gemini SRE · Ex-Akuna Capital · Founder, ZeroCopy Systems
The systems where being wrong is expensive. That's where I work.
Fractional CTO for teams building high-stakes AI agents and crypto infrastructure. I find the architectural gaps no one's measured. I fix them before they compound.
What I actually do.
I join your engineering team, find the infrastructure risk that will cost you the most, and fix it. Not a deck. Not a roadmap. A shipped fix.
I've done this at Gemini (exchange, $2B/day) and Akuna Capital (prop trading). My specialty is systems where the margin for error is zero: signing infrastructure, AI compliance architecture, and the production plumbing underneath both.
A full-time VP Engineering costs $300–500K/year and takes 6 months to ramp. First fix from me ships in weeks, not quarters. Cancel anytime.
Two domains. Same discipline.
Pick the one that sounds like you. The engagement and deliverables are tailored to each.
AI Agent Teams & Startups
Your AI agents need EU AI Act Article 14 human oversight controls (kill switch, policy engine, audit log) before the August 2 enforcement date. I build them. First gap analysis in 7 days.
Learn moreCrypto Funds & Prop Shops
Your signing p99 is hiding 8+ milliseconds of alpha. Most shops have never measured it. I find it in week one, fix it in week three. Ex-Akuna Capital crypto infra.
Learn moreShipped, not promised.
Production systems I built. KMS/CloudHSM comparisons are directly measured. ZeroCopy benchmark-suite results; methodology at benchmarks.
TEE Signing Infrastructure
42µs
deterministic signing · 3,095× faster than AWS KMS
What that means: Each trade signs in 42 millionths of a second. Fast enough to capture opportunities competitors' systems miss.
ZeroCopy Systems. Full TEE platform on AWS Nitro. 40+ Rust crates. PCR0-pinned.
Read the case study →Systematic Trading Engine
1,000+
tests · kill-switch at 6 layers · Telegram alerts
What that means: a trading engine tested so thoroughly that every failure mode has a safety net before real capital is at risk.
Quantfund. Paper → shadow → live pipeline. SHA-256 chained journal. LightGBM + ccxt.
Read the case study →The math.
Full-time VP Eng / CISO
$300–500K
per year, fully-loaded. 6-month ramp. 12-month lock-in. Recruiting pipeline alone takes 3 months.
Me, fractional
Scoped engagement
Cancel month-to-month. First architectural deliverable within 2–3 weeks. One decision saved pays for a year.
Wrong architecture decision
$200K+
Remediation sprint, delayed fundraise, and the customer who quietly goes elsewhere.
Latest essay
All writingSovereign infrastructure for AI agents handling capital: a practitioner's reference
What production-grade infrastructure for autonomous agents that move money actually requires: human-oversight controls, attestation, deterministic safety nets, and the Article 14 deadline.
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Start with a conversation.
20 minutes. You describe the problem. I tell you if there's a fit and what I'd do first. No pitch, no follow-up spam.
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