1986 First line of code (Commodore 64)
1991 First robot
1997 First neural network
2000 First brain-computer interface
2013 AlchemyAPI → IBM Watson (employee #10)
2014 Zero Day Initiative → Trend Micro
2017 Bell Labs — embedded comms, 5G, GPS
2019 Tanium — 1.25M endpoints, fleet ops at scale
2023 MindHive — agentic solutions architecture
2025 Tafy Labs — production robotics infrastructure
I build open-source infrastructure for production robotics — the tooling that sits between "the demo worked" and "it runs on 50 robots in a warehouse at 3am." Founder of Tafy Labs. Technical lead at Aktoh Cyber.
ganglion— Hostile-network reachability for ROS 2 fleets. libp2p connectivity, WASM sandboxed tooling, native capability brokers. 13 crates, 254 tests, on crates.io.cargo install gangtafystudio— Distributed robotics operating system. Get COTS hardware up and running in under 30 minutes.TafySH— AI-powered login shell wrapping bash/zsh/fish with LLM-powered natural language commands and multi-device orchestration.pip install tafysh
ROS 2, libp2p, Wasmtime, Rust, Python, C++, NVIDIA Jetson, ESP32, n8n. I write about all of it at automaton.run.