Founder-engineer. Built Pollinate Trading to $250K+ ARR solo. 500 Startups exit before that. 25+ public builds and counting. Currently building MAKO — and open to chat.
I'm an AI-first founder-engineer. I build agentic workflows where agents use tools, hit APIs, manage state, transact on-chain, evaluate their own output, and ship real work.
Solo-built Pollinate Trading to $250K+ ARR — product, frontend, backend, data, infra, backtesting, deployment. Now building MAKO: a verifier, pulse, pricing, and reputation layer for the x402 agent economy, callable as paid endpoints and MCP tools.
10+ years in crypto/web3/DeFi. Operated a crypto hedge fund through multiple cycles. Former 500 Startups founder with exit. Before tech: 7 years in Iraq running State Dept and DoD high-threat protection, then multinational security programs across LATAM and the Middle East.
I move fast, ship to production, and write code that other engineers will want to maintain.
Verifier · Pulse · Pricing Index · Reputation Score — all callable as paid x402 endpoints. The missing primitive that lets autonomous agents pay each other and trust the result. Drop-in MCP server for Claude Desktop, Cline, and any MCP-native agent. Live at mako.pollinateresearch.com.
Solo-built fintech platform for systematic traders, grown to $250K+ ARR. Market-regime analysis, signal systems, risk dashboards, automated alerts, backtesting, and subscriber workflows — owned end-to-end.
Community of systematic traders shipping AI-built strategies 2× per week. Public /builds feed: regime filters, Monte Carlo prompts, scanners, position sizers, model bake-offs. Real systems, walk-forward validated.
Open-source longevity protocol platform. Your health data, your models, your hardware — a framework for personalized longevity protocols that doesn't ship your biology to a SaaS.
Super-light, session-locked AI coding terminal. One project. One tool. No drift. Built because every "AI IDE" I tried kept losing the thread halfway through a feature.
Pitch microsite for a CMMC compliance lead-generation system targeting defense contractors. End-to-end build: copy, design, deploy.
Interactive family genealogy site — 608+ years, 83 ancestors, 6 countries. Built to learn the data-viz stack I'd been avoiding.
Live tracker for "10 Predictions for 2026 That Nobody Is Pricing In." Public scorecard, updated as the year plays out.
~95% automation of OSINT intelligence gathering for LATAM-focused corporate security and EP teams. Turns noisy open-source signals into structured reports security teams can act on.
Predictive risk analytics startup for transportation. Selected for 500 Startups; exited via acquisition of the technology and team.
Building MAKO and x402 payment-agent workflows on crypto-native rails. Designing agent primitives for tool orchestration, API integrations, workflow state, payment logic, guardrails, observability, and eval. Daily driver across Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini.
Solo-built fintech platform for systematic traders to $250K+ ARR. Product, frontend, backend, data, infra, backtesting, deployment, and customer workflows — all owned. Python · React/Next.js · Node · Postgres · AWS/Vercel.
EP strategy and program builds for Fortune 500 CEOs and families — zero security incidents. Custom software for security ops, client reporting, and operational efficiency. Operated a crypto hedge fund across multiple cycles.
Predictive risk analytics for transportation. Selected for 500 Startups; exited via acquisition of the technology and team.
Built the Enterprise Security Plan from inception. Directed operations, budgets, government relations, and SOPs for high-risk-environment work across LATAM.
Directed multinational operations across the Middle East: 5,000+ personnel, $100M in U.S. government equipment, 24/7 tactical operations centers. Close protection for U.S. Embassy personnel, DoD facilities, and the President of Haiti during election transition.
Maritime Special Purpose Force, security element for MEU(SOC) Direct Action Platoon. Squad Leader, Security Forces, Guantanamo Bay.
Currently building MAKO. Always shipping. The inbox is open.