I tend to build when an existing tool gets close to the problem but never quite solves it. Across more than two decades, that has meant kernel drivers, ecommerce software, machine-learning systems, infrastructure tools, embedded automation and, today, a full transaction platform.
2000s → TODAY
20+ years
of shipping, prototyping and operating technology products.
RECURRING PATTERN
Build the missing layer.
Interoperability, automation and infrastructure where the platform stops short.
FROM SOFTWARE TO HARDWARE
Systems, not demos.
Products that connect software to devices, marketplaces, people and physical workflows.
CURRENT FLAGSHIP · 2025–PRESENT
Coverity
A security-first transaction and field-operations platform built around the real workflow rather than another disconnected point solution.
Coverity grew out of direct experience with notary dispatch and real-estate closing operations. The platform coordinates customers, field personnel, documents, schedules, communications, payments and exceptions inside one operational model, with identity, auditability and workflow state designed into the architecture.
The production platform is built primarily in C#/.NET on Azure with SQL Server, asynchronous processing, real-time messaging, API integrations and document workflows. It represents the current evolution of the same pattern found throughout this portfolio: remove the human effort spent carrying context between systems.
COMMERCIAL PRODUCTS
Products that found a market.
2003
WINDOWS · DEVELOPER TOOLS
xTools™
Native Win32 ports of familiar Unix and GNU command-line tools, including utilities such as ls and sed, without requiring a compatibility environment such as Cygwin.
The product also incorporated Linux filesystem interoperability work. Intel purchased approximately 2,000 licenses.
Built with: Win32, C/C++, systems programming, filesystem integration, Unix/Windows interoperability.
c. 2005
WINDOWS · STORAGE
VirtualISO™
A virtual CD/DVD and disk-image manager for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, including then-new 64-bit Windows systems. It mounted ISO, BIN, RAW and related image formats directly as virtual drives without requiring physical media.
VirtualISO was commercially distributed through Braindonors.net and built on custom low-level virtual-disk technology.
Built with: Windows kernel development, x64 drivers, virtual block devices, storage subsystem programming.
MID-2000s
ADTECH · MACHINE LEARNING
AuthentiClick
A machine-learning platform for detecting click fraud and evaluating the authenticity and quality of online advertising traffic. The system analyzed high-volume advertising events to identify suspicious behavior and score traffic quality.
The work combined real-time commercial fraud detection with statistical and machine-learning techniques years before applied AI became a routine enterprise product category.
Related IP: U.S. Patent 10,567,255 B2.
c. 2009
ECOMMERCE · OPERATIONS
Marketplace Manager™
A desktop ecommerce operations platform that brought Amazon and eBay seller workflows into one interface, combining orders, inventory, marketplace synchronization and shipping.
Marketplace Manager also integrated with Stamps.com for label generation and shipment processing. Approximately 200 copies were sold.
Why it mattered: multi-channel ecommerce management later became an established SaaS category; at the time, sellers often operated each marketplace independently.
SYSTEMS & INFRASTRUCTURE
The parts users normally never see.
EARLY 2000s
Windows ext2 Filesystem Driver
An open-source Windows filesystem driver enabling direct access to Linux ext2 filesystems from Windows.
Kernel development · filesystems · block devices · Linux interoperability
EARLY 2000s
Virtual Disk / Image Mounting Technology
Low-level Windows virtual-storage work that allowed disk-image files to behave like physical devices. This work became the technical foundation for VirtualISO.
Kernel-mode storage · device emulation · disk-image formats
MID-2000s
PowerUp!
A datacenter power-management and infrastructure-control system combining Linux software with Watchdog hardware for monitoring and controlling physical computing infrastructure.
Linux · remote power · hardware monitoring · infrastructure automation
c. 2011
Braindonors Linux Appliance Platform
A small, reproducible Linux environment for appliance-style deployments, built using Linux From Scratch concepts with Mono, GTK#, networking and SMB.
Linux From Scratch · Mono · GTK# · appliance systems
PHYSICAL COMPUTING
Software that reaches into the real world.
c. 2002 · HOME AUTOMATION
Aetheria
An embedded home-automation and control system developed around Windows CE, including control of motorized window shades and related physical systems.
Windows CE · embedded systems · device communication · motor control
c. 2020 · MODEL AUTOMATION
Lights-On!
A wireless automation platform for model railroads, scale models, dioramas and interactive displays, coordinating lighting, servos, displays, audio and sensor-triggered effects.
Linux · microcontrollers · wireless control · sensors · lighting · servos
PLATFORMS & PRODUCTIZED SERVICES
Turning infrastructure work into repeatable products.
ENOKI.CLOUD
Managed technology platform
A managed infrastructure and IT platform built around making deployment and ongoing operations repeatable rather than treating every customer environment as a one-off project.
LAUNCHKIT™
Turnkey deployment
A productized Enoki offering that packaged identity, infrastructure, cloud services and endpoint deployment into a ready-to-operate technology environment.
EXPERIMENTS & SMALLER TOOLS
Not every useful idea needs to become a company.
Some projects were built to solve a specific technical problem, test an architecture, or explore a product direction. They belong in the portfolio without pretending they all became commercial releases.
SerialTool
A serial communications and device-development utility for hardware debugging, diagnostics and data monitoring.
RetroServe
A concept exploring ways to connect retro-computing and gaming environments with modern hosted and network services.
THE THROUGH-LINE
Build the missing layer.
The technologies change, but the product instinct is remarkably consistent: find the place where people are doing work only because two systems do not understand each other, then build the layer that makes the complexity disappear.
Interoperability
xTools, ext2 and VirtualISO bridged gaps between operating systems, tools and storage formats.
Operational automation
Marketplace Manager, AuthentiClick and Coverity reduced the human work of carrying state between fragmented systems.
Physical systems
Aetheria, PowerUp! and Lights-On! treated hardware and software as one programmable system.