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Professional Summary Professional Summary
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Innovative and results-driven Full Stack Engineer with over 15 years of experience in scaling systems, automating processes, and developing open-source software. Proven track record in executing ideas guided by vision and mission, uniting teams through effective communication, and growing product pipelines. Expertise in AWS infrastructure, DevOps practices, and growing SaaS products from the ground up. Full Stack Engineer & open-source defect researcher with 15+ years scaling production systems. Currently lead `undefect.com <https://undefect.com>`_, a systematic defect research program tracking 1,254 confirmed defects across 638 open-source vendors & 60+ ecosystems, organized into 9 Mother of All Defect (MOAD) classes with patches released to public domain. Career spans site reliability (Remind, 30M users through COVID-19 distance learning), security engineering (SOC2 & FedRAMP at Cofense, DevOps at Mandiant), machine learning infrastructure (Coursemojo), & bootstrapped SaaS (Make Post Sell, Remarkbox, uncloseai, unsandbox). Proven track record executing ideas guided by vision & mission, uniting teams through effective communication, & growing product pipelines from the ground up on AWS & bare metal.
Core Competencies Core Competencies
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Professional Experience Professional Experience
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**Founder & Lead Researcher**
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**undefect.com** - Remote | 04/2026 - Present
Established a systematic defect research program across open-source software infrastructure, launched 04/01/2026.
Launched 9 Mother of All Defect (MOAD) research programs cataloging recurring structural defect patterns across 638 vendors & 60+ ecosystems. Published 1,291 UNDF advisories & 671 intel posts documenting 1,254 confirmed defects spanning algorithmic complexity (CWE-407), shared mutable state, context leaks, plaintext credential handling (CWE-312), thundering herd (CWE-362), geometric complexity, & catastrophic regex (CWE-1333). Shipped a 297× speedup patch to Mercurial's ``hg log -G`` on 04/03/2026 via the ``mercurial-devel`` mailing list. Built scanner tooling, vendor CRM, disclosure pipeline, & a public research portal driven by machine-learning agents for scan, triage, & patch generation. Patches released to public domain under a permacomputer declaration.
Tech: Python, Pelican, Caddy, Go, SQLite, Graphviz, Stripe, Anthropic Claude, OpenAI-compatible inference gateways
**Founder & Author** **Founder & Author**
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**Make Post Sell, uncloseai.com & unsandbox.com** - Remote | 01/2019 - Present **Make Post Sell, uncloseai.com, unsandbox.com & unfirehose.com** - Remote | 01/2019 - Present
Bootstrapped a multi-tenant e-commerce platform for digital & physical product sales. Bootstrapped a multi-tenant e-commerce platform for digital & physical product sales.
Developed & open-sourced a complete SaaS solution with a commission-free selling model for shop owners. Hot wallet payments for Monero, Dogecoin, Litecoin, & Bitcoin crypto currencies with auto quotes based on cart totals. Authored "uncloseai. Machine Learning Reference Guide to Inference Clients" using machine learning to cover inference client implementations & streaming techniques across 42 programming languages. Built unsandbox.com, an anonymous remote code compilation & execution API supporting 42+ languages with containerized isolation, artifact generation, & async execution for humans & ML agents. Developed & open-sourced a complete SaaS solution with a commission-free selling model for shop owners. Hot wallet payments for Monero, Dogecoin, Litecoin, & Bitcoin crypto currencies with auto quotes based on cart totals. Authored "uncloseai. Machine Learning Reference Guide to Inference Clients" using machine learning to cover inference client implementations & streaming techniques across 42 programming languages. Built unsandbox.com, an anonymous remote code compilation & execution API supporting 42+ languages with containerized isolation, artifact generation, & async execution for humans & ML agents. Built unfirehose.com, a cross-project machine-learning-agent observability platform ingesting JSONL session logs into SQLite & exposing a Next.js dashboard, todo & dependency graph system, & JSON API spanning 22+ projects (published as ``@unturf/unfirehose`` npm packages).
Tech: GNU/Linux, Python, Pyramid, SQLAlchemy, Caddy, Docker, Gitlab Runners Tech: GNU/Linux, Python, Pyramid, SQLAlchemy, Caddy, Docker, Gitlab Runners, TypeScript, Next.js, Tailwind, better-sqlite3, Turborepo
**Full Stack Engineer** **Full Stack Engineer**