Experience
Mandate-enforced agent payment protocol on Stellar, with smart contracts serving as the authoritative spending boundary for AI agents
- Lead Soroban smart contract implementation and x402/Stellar integration for simple and composite MandateRegistry contracts enforcing authorization, merchant and asset scope, budgets, expiry, replay-resistant sequencing, and atomic token transfers
- Shipped source-verified Stellar testnet contract releases with deterministic builds, WASM hashes, pause and admin controls, and timelocked same-address upgrades that preserve contract IDs and storage
- Built and published the TypeScript developer stack: @reapp-sdk/core, @reapp-sdk/stellar, @reapp-sdk/ap2, @reapp-sdk/express-middleware, and reapp-protocol-cli
- Implemented signed AP2 mandate validation and fail-closed HTTP payment delivery with authenticated challenges, independent settlement verification, atomic fulfillment, immutable-result replay, and crash-safe no-second-payment recovery
- Developed live consumer and fulfillment reference agents plus interactive Express, AP2, and CLI testnet workbenches demonstrating successful purchases and contract-enforced rejection after mandate budget exhaustion
- Created 20 deterministic hackathon starter projects with reproducible archives, SHA-256 manifests, beginner-ready setup flows, and scenario-specific payment safety checks
- Published REAPP NETWORK, a 50-page, source-backed field guide covering the architecture, protocols, authorization, security, implementation, and merchant-readiness requirements of agentic payments
- Established threat models, failure drills, adversarial tests, and continuous gate checks covering unauthorized callers and upgrades, overspend, expiry, replay, redirects, RPC outages, and store failures
Weave is a Serverless Cloud Platform enabling developers to create AI Agents, DAG Workflows, and APIs using low-code edge compute functions
- Implemented web3 blockchain node integrations including Starknet ArgentX Wallet, Contract Declaration/Deployment, DeFi Llama, Chainlink Functions, Space and Time, Helius (Solana), and Solidity Compiler
- Developed Block Broadcast system enabling users to create apps and listen to on-chain emitted events
- Designed and implemented Tally AI algorithms for enhanced data processing
- Conducted R&D initiatives for emerging blockchain and AI technologies
Enterprise blockchain automation and AI agent platform
- Architected Digital Worker system with advanced memory and skill management capabilities
- Developed multi-tenant services for enterprise blockchain applications
- Presented working demo at ETH Denver 2023, showcasing automated NFT marketplace deployment across multiple blockchains
- Designed Orchestration Engine infrastructure for scalable operations
- Co-developed proprietary AI Agent system in Python
Decentralized social media platform with token-gated features and NFT marketplace
- Built comprehensive infrastructure including Web3Auth integration for decentralized authentication
- Implemented token-gated memberships and pay-per-purchase functionality in truly decentralized ecosystem
- Developed NFT marketplace with gallery workflow for artists within user feeds
- Engineered AI server to facilitate content commerce and recommendations
- Created blockchain node listener and indexer to track transactions and deliver push notifications
Web3 gaming studio developing blockchain-powered gaming experiences
- Led blockchain smart contract development for web3 gaming applications
- Developed proprietary BlockRunner (Node Listeners and Cached Blockchain Indexers) and CARVE Minting Engine
- Built NFT Dutch Auction Marketplace for the FireSky gaming platform
- Created NFT Utility layer on Terra Blockchain enabling ticket borrowing/lending with ownership verification
- Developed one of the first NFT Marketplaces on XRPL mainnet
- Architected multichain NFT minting infrastructure across Avalanche, Polygon, and Ethereum
- Managed all cybersecurity and smart contract auditing processes
- Organized multiple industry hackathons sponsored by the company
- Taught programming languages including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Swift, and Python to junior high and high school students
- Introduced students to industry services such as WordPress and AWS
- Developed comprehensive curricula, lectures, projects, and assignments
- Directed all IT services including cybersecurity, web development, database architecture, and iOS development
- Designed and deployed multiple iOS applications: KeegansList (SXSW event aggregator), NextBlock (blockchain conference networking), Triple D Life (interactive restaurant mapping)
- Built backend systems using MySQL and PHP/Python for REST API endpoints
- Implemented AWS Lambda functions with API Gateways connecting to RDS instances
- Developed online investment monitoring tools for cannabis industry
- Created iOS application interfacing with existing web services
- Implemented stock quote functionality using Alpha Vantage API
3+ years as a federal contractor embedded inside the Internal Revenue Service, the largest revenue collection agency on Earth. The IRS collected $3.3 trillion annually during this period: more than the entire GDP of the United Kingdom. Every release shipped under FISMA, NIST 800-53, and IRS Internal Revenue Manual (IRM) security controls, with federal change-control review and zero tolerance for production failure.
$3.3T ANNUAL FEDERAL REVENUE
$3B/YR FEE PROGRAM
FISMA · NIST 800-53 · IRM
U.S. TREASURY
PUBLIC TRUST
Consumer tech ships experiments. This codebase carried the force of federal law: every calculation a legal determination levied against Fortune 500 pharmaceutical manufacturers.
- Developed and maintained the IRS Branded Prescription Drug (BPD) application (Java, Spring MVC): the production system administering the Affordable Care Act §9008 fee program, assessing ≈$3 billion per year in statutory fees against the world's largest pharmaceutical manufacturers, reconciling manufacturer sales data across Medicare, Medicaid, VA, DoD, and TRICARE
- Shipped production fixes to two primary IRS Web Services (C#): live federal infrastructure where a defect means statutory misassessment, not a rollback
- Co-developed a ground-up WPF/.NET replacement for a legacy IRS Web Service application: federal legacy modernization, the highest-stakes migration class in software
- Built a Drools Business Rules Engine application (Guvnor): the rules-as-code pattern agencies use to encode federal statute into executable logic
- Authored technical white papers on Drools, JRebel, Big Data, and AngularJS, informing federal technology adoption decisions
- Cleared federal background investigation for Public Trust access to IRS systems and Sensitive But Unclassified (SBU) data
Publications
Independent Security Research • Confidential Programs • 2026
"Anonymous Responsible Disclosures & Bug Bounty Research."
Identified and responsibly disclosed a production web application vulnerability to a billion-dollar technology company; its security team reviewed and validated the finding, and its CISO issued formal recognition. Received payouts for four additional bug-bounty findings from billion-dollar companies.
Zhang, Y., Raines, A., Flowers II, R. A.
"Solvent-Dependent Chemoselectivities in Additions of β-Carbonyl Imines to Allyltrimethylsilane with CTAN."
The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 69(19): 6267-6272 (2004)
Zhang, Y., Raines, A., Flowers II, R. A.
"Solvent-Dependent Chemoselectivities in Ce(IV)-Mediated Oxidative Coupling Reactions."
Organic Letters 5(13): 2363-2365 (2003)
Projects - 37 shipped (16 Live, 6 In Progress, 3 Pending, 12 Paused)
AI Infrastructure & Developer Tools
ChainLens - AI Crypto Due Diligence Agent
Institutional-grade crypto due diligence in seconds. Multi-agent AI performs parallel analysis: smart contract security, whitepaper legitimacy, tokenomics sustainability. Multi-chain (ETH, Base, Arbitrum, Polygon, Solana).
Replaces a $50K+ audit team. The infrastructure crypto funds pay six figures annually to access.
Toolsy - MCP Marketplace & No-Code Builder
Connect productivity tools to Claude AI via Model Context Protocol. AI Wizard generates MCP servers from natural language. Full marketplace to buy/sell MCP tools.
MCP is still early; building marketplace infrastructure now is like building Shopify apps in 2010.
IntentOS - AI-Powered Intent Automation Platform
Define automation goals in natural language → deploy intelligent agents. Multiple agent types: monitor, executor, analyzer, scheduler. Agent memory for persistent context.
The operating system for AI agents. What Zapier would be if built with LLMs at the core.
VoiceBot - Instant AI Voice Expert
Ask the most complicated question, get a casual expert-level answer in seconds. Real-time voice transcription → Claude processing → response.
Voice-first AI that turns anyone into an instant expert. The UX Siri and Alexa wish they had.
AI Content & Generative Media
ThaigerWoodsKa - Instagram Influencer AI Bot
Full autonomous content pipeline: upload media → AI vision captions → ElevenLabs voiceover → Sad Talker animates celebrity faces with lip-sync → auto-posts to Instagram.
End-to-end AI content factory. The future of influencer marketing is autonomous.
Silk & Tears - AI Short Film Generator
Type a prompt → generates complete 5-scene video. Full pipeline: AI scriptwriting → scene generation → FFmpeg concatenation → S3 delivery. Pivoting to LA/NYC producer market.
Prompt-to-video with production pipeline is where the entire AI content industry is heading.
ReelPhysics - AI Movie Physics Roaster
Analyzes movies scene-by-scene, roasts impossible physics with actual formulas. 705+ movies analyzed. Currently used in a Junior High School physics curriculum.
Already deployed in school curriculum; that's product-market fit most EdTech startups never achieve.
StyleShift - AI Art Style Transfer Platform
Upload photo, select style (South Park, anime, watercolor, pixel art) or custom prompt, adjust transformation strength. Built before ChatGPT image gen.
ReelSense - Cliff Notes for Cinema
AI-powered 11-section film analysis: themes, symbolism, character psychology, director intentions. Converts to professional audio narration via OpenAI TTS-1-HD.
Prism - AI Social Media Content Transformer
Paste any post → select tone → AI rewrites with statistical context to sound human and unbiased. Engineered to maximize Reddit karma.
Paused
AI HealthTech
DNAI - AI Genome Analysis Platform
Upload genome files → AI analysis: variant detection with ACMG classification, polygenic disease risk scores, pharmacogenomics, longevity projections, clinical trial matching.
The kind of genomic + clinical trial matching infrastructure VC-backed healthtech startups raise $10M+ to build.
MindfulAI - AI Therapy Platform
Three AI therapeutic personas: Clinical Therapist (DSM-5), Analyst (psychodynamic), Behavioral Therapist (CBT/DBT). Voice recording, spoken responses, session history.
Democratizing mental health access. Therapy is $150-300/hour with 6-week waitlists.
AI Trust & Verification
NeuralScan - AI vs AI: Synthetic Media Detection Platform
Proprietary multi-expert forensic system for detecting AI-generated images and videos. Five specialized neural engines analyze anatomy inconsistencies, physics violations, texture artifacts, compression signatures, and stylistic fingerprints in parallel, delivering confidence-weighted verdicts with explainable evidence chains. Enterprise API for content platforms, newsrooms, and trust & safety teams.
The arms race between generative AI and detection is the defining cybersecurity challenge of the decade. Platforms will pay enterprise rates to avoid becoming misinformation vectors; this is infrastructure for the post-deepfake internet.
AI Cybersecurity
ZeroDayAI - AI Cybersecurity Scanner
Comprehensive web vulnerability assessments: SSL/TLS, HTTP headers, injection vulnerabilities, hidden endpoints. Bug bounty integration with HackerOne/Bugcrowd/Synack payout estimates. Windows 95 aesthetic.
Enterprise security tooling at consumer prices. Bug bounty hunters pay $400+/year for tools like this.
Sweep - WordPress Malware Detection & Automated Cleanup
One-click malware remediation for WordPress. Two-stage funnel: remote scan (no install, free) detects visible threats via HTML analysis, then single-file PHP agent enables deep filesystem scanning and automated cleanup. Detects obfuscated backdoors, eval chains, crypto miners, credential leaks, shell families (c99, r57, wso), image header backdoors, hook hijacking, and 40+ threat signatures.
WordPress powers 43% of the internet and is the most targeted CMS. Traditional remediation is $200-500 per incident with 24-72 hour turnaround. Sweep replaces that entire workflow with a single API call; this is security-as-a-service at scale.
Live
AI HR & FinTech
TalentFlux - AI Digital Recruiter Platform
Paste LinkedIn URL → scrapes profile → AI analyzes experience, skills, employer history → generates scores and hiring recommendations. Trained on OpenAI/Anthropic employee career data.
Training data from elite AI companies is a moat no competitor can easily replicate.
Paused
VentureProof - AI Pitch Deck Due Diligence for VCs
Upload pitch decks → AI-generated assessments with objective scoring, risk detection, strengths/weaknesses in seconds. Approval workflows, investor sharing.
Replaces the junior analyst doing first-pass deck reviews.
AI Serpent - SEO Blog Generator with Stripe Paywall
Enter keyword → analyzes SERP data → generates SEO-optimized long-form article with structured data, meta tags, FAQs. Monetized via Stripe subscription.
AI Marketing & SEO
SEO Audit Pro - AI-Powered Website Audit Platform
Enter URL → comprehensive multi-category audit: SEO, Performance, Security, Accessibility, AI Readiness, Social. Powered by Lighthouse + OpenAI.
Blockchain & Web3
Tokenomics Engine - Multi-Provider AI Orchestration & Simulation
Institutional-grade tokenomics analysis with multi-model AI (GPT-4 Turbo, Claude 3, Gemini Pro). Intelligent routing with fallback/parallel/consensus strategies. Deterministic vesting modeling.
The infrastructure layer crypto treasuries need to model $100M+ token dynamics.
Pending
CryptoSlots - Provably Fair Solana Casino
On-chain provably fair slot machine. Connect Phantom wallet, place bets (0.1-10 SOL), spin with on-chain verification. Dark cyberpunk UI. Mobile-friendly.
Spores Network - Web3 Launchpad & Accelerator (Client)
#5 globally ranked Web3 launchpad. 200+ projects launched, $100M+ raised, 300K+ community. Elite Three.js 3D intro animation with floating spores.
Portfolio-defining frontend work with Three.js + React Three Fiber.
Consumer Apps & Entertainment
Music Vision - 24/7 Synchronized Music Video Broadcast
Cloud-based music channel where everyone watches together in real-time. Classic MTV reborn. Community-driven rotation, live chat, AI VJ, DJ mode, Sora ad support.
Synchronized shared viewing is a format Netflix, Spotify, and TikTok have all tried and failed to nail.
PopcornPicks - AI Movie Discovery Platform
Stop scrolling for something to watch. Scrapes newest releases, ranks trending movies, delivers personalized recommendations based on profile.
Mystic Tarot - AI Tarot Reading Platform
3-card spreads with cryptographically random selection. Save readings, share via unique URLs. Stunning mystical UI.
TrialTracker - Real-Time Court Case Coverage Platform
Modular live trial coverage: real-time updates, timeline tracking, legal analysis aggregation. Swappable to any high-profile case.
Infrastructure that can spin up viral coverage for any major trial in hours.
Paused
MeowBook - Facebook for Cats
Full social network replica: profiles, news feed, friend requests, DMs, reactions, comments, photo sharing: everything Facebook has, but for cats.
A technical flex disguised as a joke. Proves ability to replicate complex social platform architecture.
Switchcast - Custom Sports Audio Streaming
Strip commentary and ads from live sports streams → inject custom narration from podcasts. Choose your narrator. ESPN-inspired UI with glitch effects.
The unbundling of sports media. Licensing deals with podcasters + sports networks = massive revenue potential.
Mobile & Browser Extensions (Published)
Lovers - Apple Watch Proximity App
Real-time proximity tracking for couples. Anonymous pairing code, no accounts. Live distance display, haptic feedback at thresholds. Privacy-first. Published on App Store.
Published on the actual App Store. Most people never ship through Apple's review process.
NoBuffer - Chrome Extension for Buffer-Free Streaming
Real-time video stream monitoring that warns about buffering before it interrupts. Analyzes buffer health, throughput, quality degradation. 100% local processing. Published on Chrome Web Store.
EdTech & Language Learning
ThaiWhisperer - Voice-Powered Thai Language Learning
Record yourself speaking Thai → AI transcribes and translates to verify pronunciation → save audio to profile for replay and practice.
Language learning is a $15B market. This solves the "am I saying it right?" problem Duolingo doesn't.
Travel & Utilities
ATM Buddy - Community ATM Finder for Asia
Find ATMs that accept international cards. Real-time status reports, verified machines. Crowd-sourced scam detection: users flag predatory ATMs with hidden fees or card-skimming.
Scam prevention turns utility into social good.
GovTech & Civic Infrastructure
Housing Authority Outreach - Affordable Housing Management Platform
Digital platform for housing authorities: application management, resident communications, staff workflows. AI-powered application analysis, Google Calendar/Sheets integration.
GovTech that actually ships. The kind of civic infrastructure modernization that wins government contracts.
E-Commerce
PawPrint Toys - Custom Cat Toy E-Commerce
Handmade cat toy marketplace with product browsing, filters, customization builder. Playful animated shopping experience. Full e-commerce with Stripe.
Full-stack e-commerce from scratch, proving ability to ship complete consumer products.
Client Work & Freelance
Sherry's Taipei Bites - Culinary Tour Landing Page
Landing page for exclusive food tour business in Taipei. Local expert-led tours with About, Featured Tours, Testimonials, Contact. Fully responsive.
Bangkok Bodega - NYC Deli Pop-Up in Bangkok
Marketing site for NYC-style deli sandwich pop-up bringing authentic bodega sandwiches to Bangkok. Hero, brand story, menu, team, location, reviews.
Not just building software: building businesses. From concept to brand to landing page to launch.