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 platforms, solo, zero → GA
2025 Tafy Labs — production robotics infrastructure
2026 Ganglion v1.0 — hostile-network robot ops, on crates.io

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 gang
• tafystudio — 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
• quickbot — The $200 path to Nav2: ROS 2 + Nav2 + Open-RMF on an iRobot Create 2, Raspberry Pi 5, and RealSense D455. The reference build behind the automaton.run test reports.

ROS 2, libp2p, Wasmtime, Rust, Python, C++, NVIDIA Jetson, ESP32, n8n. I write about all of it at automaton.run.

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