About
I work as the lead developer for an education focused tech startup Unlocked-Labs, where we are working to help reduce the recidivism rate of incarcerated individuals by expanding access to education, and by tracking educational progress for proof of good-time credits. I am a strong believer in education as a means to end mass incarceration. Access to education and to technology while incarcerated changed my life completely, and I want to be a part of helping give more people the opportunity I had to study and devote time to building the skills necessary to have a meaningful life and career.
I am also a huge nerd, I love Rust, Go, CLI/TUI/all things tty, cloud/infra and building developer tools,
systems programming, the Open source community, and I enjoy teaching. I love daily driving linux, some of
my favorite tools are DWM, Neovim, Tmux and Alacritty. I am an advocate for FOSS, privacy, security, internet
anonymity, criminal justice/prison reform, but most of all for hard work and discipline. I enjoy working on
anything challenging, and I consider myself extremely fortunate that I have a career that doubles as a hobby.
Please be aware:
I am on matrix/discord and I have github and linkedin profiles. I do not have/use any other traditional social media, so if you see me on anything like facebook or instagram, it is 100% certain that it’s a fake account. I have had issues for the past 8 years with scammers making fake accounts in my name, so please report these accounts if you see them, and definitely do not send them any money.
Things I’m currently hacking on:
Eza: A modern, feature-rich replacement for ls (maintainer/contributor)
floundr: An OCI container registry in Tokio/Axum with ratatui client. (slow work in progress)
(not open source yet 😦) A msg based scheduling and consensus solution for managing distributed compute tasks (rust + tokio) (somewhat of a replacement for zookeeper + airflow)
These are some developers and projects that have inspired me, that I really admire and feel are worth sharing:
https://github.com/awesomekling
https://github.com/fasterthanlime
https://github.com/tokio-rs/tokio
https://github.com/LadyBirdBrowser/ladybird
https://github.com/ziglang/zig
https://github.com/neovim/neovim
https://github.com/ratatui-org/ratatui