Simulation engineer · Game developer · Inventor · Writer

Players never playthe game as designed.Neither doesthe adversary.

Systems architect, game developer, and writer. I build simulations people can play, break, and learn from—from World of Haiku to HADES.

Selected work Move the cursor: you're the adversary

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Haiku, Inc.

The company that turns cybersecurity training into a video game—where I went from developer lead to co-founder.

Co-founder and VP of Engineering · 2021–present

Case study

World of Haiku key art, a defender and a hooded attacker facing each other across a glowing network table

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HADES

A digital twin of a network, the drones it flies, and the satellites it talks to—with trained adversaries already inside it.

Sole inventor and engineering lead · 2026

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World of Haiku

A cyberpunk game that teaches real hacking skills inside a simulated Linux desktop.

Software Developer Lead, then Director and VP of Engineering · 2021–present

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Orca

Orca accepts only what the evidence supports. Every answer carries a receipt, and what the evidence can't settle is named, not guessed.

Designer and builder · 2026

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Orca title board beside the Orca console showing an assessment that says whether service is due cannot yet be determined

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Drawings → Steel

Reads a structural steel drawing set and builds a 3D model ready to bid in about a second.

Designer and builder · 2026 · Unreleased

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A grid-aligned 3D steel frame generated from a drawing set

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KONA

The project manager that replaced Asana, Linear, and Notion at Haiku.

Designer and builder · 2026

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Zoélie

An action puzzle platformer about a girl, her town, and an imagination-powered quilt.

Lead programmer and Scrum master · 2020

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Zoélie and her quilt Sueño in the town of La Colina

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A writing suite you own. No account, no ads, and nothing sitting on a third-party cloud.

Author and maintainer · 2026

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§02 By the numbers

patent applications pending, sole inventor: 9
winners from 230+ in DARPA's tools competition, 2024: 1 of 6
public-sector organizations reached by Haiku products, through use, evaluation, or licensed access: 16
Haiku users, as the company reports: ~40,000
Fast Company's Most Innovative AR/VR Companies, 2025: #7
invented claims Orca rejected, each for the right reason: 15 / 15
Best Gameplay, Intel University Games Showcase 2021: 1st
views on my Java tutorials: 300K+

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Forthcoming · Book

Flesh is the Shore

My first book: about 24,000 words, 84 pages in a 5 × 8 paperback. I wrote and typeset it in subScribe, the writing suite I built, and it comes out in 2026.

§04 Photography

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A market stall at dusk under green awnings, its fruit and goods lit in warm color

A narrow shop doorway framed by hanging goods, with a figure seated deep inside

A man bent over a newspaper on a street corner

§05 About

I build things people can play, break, and learn from. It started with games. At Baxter Academy, I led Abysm, a dark fantasy adventure, as my Flex Friday project; on YouTube, my Java tutorials quietly passed 300,000 views; and at SCAD, I was the lead programmer on Zoélie, which took first place for Best Gameplay at the Intel University Games Showcase.

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