From custom EVM opcode patches and Substrate FRAME pallets to AI-agent products, recursive-ZK cryptography, and GGPO-rollback netcode. 10+ years; CTO at Kokomo Games today.
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I'm a senior engineer who builds both halves of the stack — the cryptographic, high-frequency, sub-millisecond infrastructure underneath, and the AI-agent products on top. Ten years across crypto, gaming, and AI; CTO at Kokomo Games today.
Currently building AI agents for verticals where the workflow is gnarly enough that incumbents charge $20k for what should cost $2k — immigration, dental ops, building permits, B2B sales — alongside a prediction-market protocol on Hyperliquid HIP-4 for institutional traders.
The earned secret: most agent products fail because their authors don't understand the underlying workflow. I spend the first two weeks of every product shadowing the human expert it's replacing — paralegal, dental front desk, permit expediter — before any code gets written.
The skills aren't theoretical — every category below maps to production systems I've shipped, papers I've written, or packages now downloaded by other teams.
From custom EVM opcode patches and Substrate FRAME pallets to Solana BPF programs. Sub-100ms execution on Hyperliquid HIP-4, cross-chain via IBC + XCMP, settlement at scale (160M+ TXs at 99.98% uptime).
Recursive ZK cycles (Plonky2, Plookup, KZG), BLS12-381 FFTs, FROST threshold ECDSA, SPDZ triples, GPU-accelerated TFHE. Authored Ouranos (Velera) with Proof of Compartments and Layers consensus + quantum-resistant primitives.
AI-agent products in regulated verticals (immigration, dental ops, construction, sales). Distributed training with DeepSpeed ZeRO-Offload, NCCL/NVLink, Megatron-LM. Fused Triton kernels, XLA HLO optimization, GPTQ + LoRA compression.
GGPO rollback lockstep netcode, LZ4 delta compression, Unity DOTS / Burst SIMD, GPU-driven Boids, Photon Quantum deterministic simulation. CTO at Kokomo Games — hyper-casual core loops with scalable backends. Engineering Lead at Ignite ($3M MVP, 150M+ TXs, 99.99%).
ORACLE Protocol — first prediction market built natively on Hyperliquid's HFT infrastructure. Zero gas, native CLOB, perp composability.
VisaPilot, DentalVoice, PermitPal, Chord — every one with a partner-firm review queue, Drizzle schema, and live demo.
p2p-net-oura · libp2p-mdns-ouro · @tigthor/kokocrypt — post-quantum crypto, P2P networking, in production.
Each one shipped (or shipping). Click any card for a deep-dive on architecture, why-it-matters, and the live demo.
A through-line: build the deep technical substrate, then ship the product on top of it.
Comfortable across the stack — from low-level Rust execution paths to React 19 and Three.js.
Long-form deep-dives on what I'm learning. Subscribe via X or RSS once I publish.
Notes on shadowing dental front desks, paralegals, and permit expediters before any code gets written.
A walk through ORACLE's lazy-settlement model and why it collapses gas costs ~100x.
Geyser plugins, co-located bundle submission, and how to know which validators leak.
Best way to reach me is email. I read every message and reply within 24h.