Agency
Founder of Axionic Agency Lab. Research on agency theory, AI alignment, and sovereign choice — how systems decide under constraint.
About
Principal engineer, architect, and engineering leader with 35+ years building large-scale, safety-critical, and distributed systems — medical devices, remote-access platforms, and now open identity infrastructure.
I am interested in the relation between intelligence, rationality, and ethics. I think people are best understood as the product of two kinds of replicators: genes and memes. I think life is best lived as a game. There is great beauty in logic as expressed in mathematics and algorithms.
- B.Sc. Electrical Engineering
- M.Sc. Computer Science (AI)
- University of Calgary
- Professional Engineers Ontario
- Formerly Synaptive Medical
Practice
Identity
Archon and Archetech: peer-to-peer identity across Bitcoin, Lightning, Zcash, and Nostr. Portable personhood without a platform.
Safety-critical
Surgical navigation, robotic positioning, and live overlay UIs. Systems where the cost of being wrong is not a ticket.
Collective mind
Technology that lets groups become more intelligent. The Software Development Game. Mentorship as a first-class engineering practice.
Selected work
Now
OSS
Play
2012
Axionic Agency Lab
Executive Director. Agency, alignment, rationality.
Archon / Archetech
Decentralized identity. DIDs, Bitcoin, Lightning, Nostr.
Phylum
Cinematic 2D evolving creatures. WebGPU, gape, bite, lineage.
The Software Development Game
Better Software. Adaptive process as a game of private policy.
Contact
Cypherpunks write code. I prefer to operate behind the scenes.