Projects & Products
A selection of projects built, led, or contributed to across Web3 infrastructure, AI/ML platforms, and data analytics.
Current & Recent
dcipher.network
Randamu (2023-2025) | Co-Founder & CEO
The first production implementation of distributed threshold cryptography for Web3. dcipher.network provides infrastructure for secure randomness, time-lock encryption, and cross-chain messaging without bridges.
Technology:
- Threshold signature schemes (TSS) and distributed key generation (DKG)
- Bridgeless multi-chain interoperability
- MEV-resistant transaction ordering
- Conditional encryption primitives
Impact:
- Live on Cosmos, Filecoin, and Ethereum L2s
- Partnered with DIA for enterprise-grade onchain randomness
- Addressing $2B+ in historical bridge exploit losses
Links: randa.mu | dcipher.network
League of Entropy & drand
Protocol Labs / Randamu (2023-present) | Steward
A global network providing publicly verifiable randomness as a service. The League of Entropy operates the drand protocol—a distributed randomness beacon used by blockchains, lotteries, and applications requiring unbiased random values.
Technology:
- Distributed randomness generation using threshold BLS signatures
- Byzantine fault-tolerant protocol
- Publicly auditable and verifiable outputs
Impact:
- 100+ applications served
- Collaboration with Cloudflare, EPFL, Protocol Labs, and university partners
- Foundation for fair outcomes in gaming, DeFi governance, and leader election
Links: drand.love | League of Entropy
Threshold Association
Founded 2025 | Initiator
A Swiss-based nonprofit organization established to formalize standards for decentralized governance, threshold cryptography implementations, and interoperability protocols.
Mission:
- Define technical standards for threshold signature schemes
- Promote best practices in decentralized infrastructure
- Bridge academic research and production implementations
Past Projects
CodaLab
Microsoft (2013-2015) | Principal Program Manager
An open-source platform for machine learning competitions and reproducible research. CodaLab enabled researchers and practitioners to benchmark algorithms, share datasets, and collaborate on ML challenges.
Technology:
- Scalable competition infrastructure
- Reproducible experiment workflows
- Integration with Azure cloud compute
Impact:
- 300+ ML competitions hosted
- 3,000+ expert community built
- Used by academic conferences (NeurIPS, ICML) and enterprise research teams
- Pioneered competition-based approaches to ML research acceleration
Links: codalab.org
Quantarium AVM Platform
Quantarium (2017-2019) | VP of Corporate Development
An AI-powered automated valuation model (AVM) platform for real estate. The system provided instant property valuations using machine learning on diverse data sources.
Technology:
- Ensemble ML models for property valuation
- Real-time data integration from multiple sources
- API-first architecture for enterprise integration
Impact:
- #1 ranked AVM by coverage and accuracy
- $12M+ in AWS B2B e-commerce sales
- Powered valuations for major financial institutions
Press: Data Hero | Data Pioneer
Trensant Predictive Analytics
Trensant (2015-2017) | Co-Founder & CPO
A predictive analytics platform combining SaaS APIs, machine learning algorithms, and graph databases to transform unstructured data into actionable intelligence.
Technology:
- NLP-based prediction models
- Graph database infrastructure for relationship mapping
- Real-time risk and intelligence APIs
Impact:
- Predicted 2016 U.S. presidential election by one electoral vote
- Raised $6M in venture funding
- Successfully acquired by Interos.ai
Metavana NPS Platform
Metavana (2011-2013) | Co-Founder & Director of Product
The first Net Promoter Score (NPS) SaaS API, enabling enterprises to measure and act on customer sentiment at scale.
Technology:
- Real-time sentiment analysis APIs
- NPS calculation and tracking infrastructure
- Enterprise integration connectors
Impact:
- Named Gartner 2013 Cool Vendor in content and social analytics
- Pioneered API-first approach to customer experience measurement
- Served enterprise customers across multiple industries
SproutVest Portfolio
Through SproutVest, I advise and invest in companies across AI, Web3, DeSci, and enterprise SaaS. Select engagements:
- Google — Product strategy consulting
- Elevance Health — Healthcare analytics supporting 34M members
- Angi — Consumer marketplace optimization
- ASU — EdTech and research commercialization
- Microsoft Research — AI/ML product development
Patents
- Opinion Search Engine — Methods for searching and ranking opinion-based content
- Hybrid Human-ML System — Combining human judgment with machine learning for improved decision-making
Open Source Contributions
- drand — Core contributor to the distributed randomness beacon protocol
- CodaLab — Platform architecture and competition infrastructure
- Various Web3 infrastructure projects as advisor and contributor
Get Involved
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