I build things that help people feel.
Neurosecurity · Haptic Braille · Brain-Computer Interfaces · ML/SIEM Engineering
Same pattern at every scale: ordinary components, wired together, producing something that didn't exist before.
Science fair with my dad. Clear cassette tape case + battery + wires + switch + bulb. My first build. Ordinary components, wired together, producing light.
Forum moderator at 12. Learning how online communities work, how to manage people, how trust systems function. Before social media existed.
Version 10. I wanted the racing game, but my mom said I had to play this first every Sunday. Learned to type through play, not through drills. Twenty-six years later, I built the braille version of it. Now I can't stop typing.
Co-created at age 13. A Photoshop community forum with ~3,000 members, hosted on a free forum platform with agfx.net as a redirect. Modified and remixed phpBB skins for gaming communities worldwide. Created custom grunge brushes for Photoshop 6.0, free forum avatars and signatures for the community. Tutorials published across top design aggregator sites. I loved turning abstract ideas in my head into something I could show people. And I loved the community and helping part the most. Only thing that kept me going.
The Wayback Machine has a few cached pages, but the forum ran on phpBB with a MySQL backend — all the posts, threads, and member content lived in the database. When the server went away, the archive lost everything the crawler couldn't reach.
Where I first shared my Photoshop work. Digital art, interface design, web skins. Stopped sharing here as I moved to posting on the AGFX forum instead. The creative foundation that taught me: design is how humans experience information.
Custom MySpace layouts and profile skins for friends. Still doing Photoshop work but less of it. Stopped after freshman year to get fit. The design skills stayed dormant until I taught my friends Photoshop.
B.A. Information Technology & Informatics. Dean's List. Almost double-majored in Psychology (one lab short). Grew up in subsidized housing — 1 of 3 in my school that I was aware of on the subsidized lunch program. GPA trajectory: 1.7 → Dean's List → 4.0.
Chartered a chapter of the first national fraternity to allow multiple religions (est. 1899), from near-disbandment. Recruited 12 members in one semester. Served as Sergeant at Arms. Same pattern: build from nothing.
Appointed as the shop's laptop repair specialist. Eventually responsible for all MacBook repairs — logic boards, monitors, RAM, fans, full teardowns. First job where someone handed me something broken and I handed it back working.
Entire IT team quit. I was part-time. Got promoted to run everything solo — servers, networking, telecom, security, lab systems connected to cancer research instrumentation. Rebuilt everything from scratch because it was so poorly done, including the server room. Eventually brought on a systems engineer to help. OSHA-trained for lab access.
Implemented enterprise SIEM from scratch. Tuned supervised and unsupervised ML models for threat detection — behavioral profiling, anomaly scoring, and automated alerting pipelines. Managed 250 firewalls solo. Deployed hardware security modules for digital underwriting. Named "IT Rookie of the Year" — sat next to Michio Kaku and Steve Wozniak at the ceremony.
Led security operations across APAC, EMEA, and ANZ. Reduced phishing susceptibility by 30% through education-over-punishment philosophy. Deployed EDR globally. Alpha-tested a major security vendor's new product — found a gap, raised it directly with their co-founder at their conference. They fast-tracked the fix.
Threat intelligence framework from scratch. Weekly vulnerability committee. Digital risk monitoring across all brands, including executive protection for C-suite and a global scholars program. Deployed SIEM with multi-site clustering and failover.
Spoke on a Cyber Threat Intelligence panel at AT&T Stadium (Dallas Cowboys).
Engineering Manager. Built SIEM for one of the world's largest consumer apps. SIEM processing petabytes/sec. ML-driven anomaly detection. Saved $1.3M year one on licensing optimization. Built the security logging standard adopted across 40+ brands. 3 hackathon wins. ISO 27001 certification. Trained security teams company-wide.
Wellness Champion during COVID — company announced cutting free therapy. Saw the distress on people's faces. Raised it with leadership. They reversed course.
Best Speaker Award. Best Evaluator Award. Invited Guest Speaker. Learned to present in front of international audiences.
161 attack techniques against brain-computer interfaces. NISS severity scoring. Neural Sensory Protocol. Coherence Metric. The first open threat catalog for neurotechnology. 193 verified research sources.
Discovered a vulnerability in the most-used BCI streaming protocol (plaintext neural data, zero auth). FIRST.org CVSS SIG offered to list the framework. Pursuing academic peer review first. A Yale researcher validated the neurorights mapping: "nobody's done this yet."
qinnovate.com →Quorum — multi-agent swarm plugin. BCI Security Plugin — first BCI security toolkit on any AI platform. Building the picks and shovels for a field that doesn't have tooling yet.
Open-source project where humans and AI agents recover lost artifacts of the internet from open web crawl data. Archiving what the archives missed.
The internet is a civilization. Most traffic is already bots. The AI internet isn't coming — it's here. AI-rchives is a prototype for how the two internets coexist.
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CVSS SIG offered to add QIF as a resource on FIRST.org's CVSS repository. Stated not enough domain experts in neurosecurity. Declined listing to get it peer reviewed with domain experts through academia first.
Identified unencrypted neural data transport in a widely used BCI streaming protocol. Reported to maintainers and documented in the threat catalog.
Pre-attentive sensory augmentation for braille reading.
LiDAR navigation for the blind. Multi-model detection, haptic output, voice commands. Service dog retirement plan — the phone navigates, the dog plays.
Status: Building — scaffold compiles
Vendor-agnostic neurosecurity device. Detection, enforcement, and haptic output at the boundary between silicon and biology.
Status: Theoretical — needs academic research partners
Ethics framework co-written by AI agents and humans. Four hardcoded laws. Community-derived principles. Governance model with three branches.
ai-rchives/ai-ethics →Status: Active — open for contributions
Directions, not products. Status labels are honest.
JustBrowser — lyrics and sound selection by me, production by AI. Learning piano on the side.