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Low-latency infrastructure
Execution paths where the tail is the product: clock discipline, kernel and NIC behaviour, and the measurement that tells you which microseconds you are paying for.
Independent architect for regulated capital infrastructure
Infrastructure that moves real money, secured to regulator standard.
I build the parts that are not allowed to fail quietly: execution paths, the clocks that timestamp them, and the signing infrastructure that holds the keys. My clients are exchanges, trading firms, and the teams putting autonomous agents next to real capital.
What I argue
Fast is a number you can put on a slide. Predictable is the one that pays.
A venue that stalls twice an hour costs its participants more than one that is uniformly slower, because everyone quoting against it prices that uncertainty in. The same holds for a signing path, a clock, or a kill switch: the average is marketing, the tail is the system. Almost everything I do comes back to one discipline. Measure the tail, publish the method, and treat any number without one as folklore.
What I work on
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Reliability engineering
What happens on the worst day. Failure modes that are actually independent, escalation that reaches a human in time, and controls that fire when they are supposed to.
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Confidential computing & custody
Signing paths and key custody built to survive an examiner and an adversary. Enclaves, attestation, and policy enforced at the hardware boundary instead of in a document.
Where this comes from
Twelve years inside trading systems and crypto exchanges. Three times, I was the first infrastructure engineer in the building.
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2025 to now
Founder, ZeroCopy Systems
Confidential-computing signing for institutions that cannot hand their keys to a vendor. Pre-launch.
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2022 to 2024
Founding Web3 Infrastructure Engineer
Upside. Owned the wallet infrastructure holding $500M+ across hot, warm, and cold tiers. Sixteen months, zero security incidents.
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2021 to 2022
Founding Cryptocurrency DevOps Engineer
Akuna Capital. Built the crypto desk’s trading infrastructure from nothing, across twelve venues.
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2020 to 2021
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Gemini. Nanosecond time sync under matching, surveillance, and audit, at $2B+ of daily volume.
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2019 to 2020
Site Reliability Engineer
Pex. Moved the platform from GCP to Azure Kubernetes and took 45% out of the running cost.
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2012 to 2018
Lead Linux Infrastructure Engineer
FlexTrade. Fifteen hundred production Linux systems across five sites, under SOC 2 and MiFID II audit.
62µs p99 signing in the enclave I'm building now. Every number on this site carries its method. i
Measured: secp256k1 ECDSA signing incl. attestation document generation and response serialization On: GitHub-hosted ubuntu-latest CI runner (x86_64 Linux); dedicated Nitro hardware validation pending Sample: 50,000 iterations (41µs median) Date: July 2026
Speaking
I speak on low-latency infrastructure, reliability engineering, and emotional arts. Most recently “The Outage You Never See” on the TEDxCMRIT Hyderabad stage. Talks & workshops →
Work with me
No catalog, no booking funnel. I take on a small number of engagements at a time. If the problems above are yours, a tail you cannot explain, a custody design that has to survive examination, controls for agents that touch money, then write to me about what you run and what worries you.