I build new things from zero and ship them.
Over 18 years I've launched enterprise products at Oracle, co-founded a decentralized space agency (studied in an academic thesis), and helped raise over $50M for Julian Assange's legal defense. I work where product strategy, systems engineering, design, and community meet. My specialty is the chaotic early-stage stretch: naming a thing, shaping its direction, and getting it across the finish line.
My work splits into two modes.
Product leadership and creative direction. I define what gets built. I scope the initial feature set, set the strategic roadmap, and prioritize the backlog, then shape the parts people actually touch: the name, the look, the positioning, the user experience. I'm hands-on in graphic design, technical writing, AI art, and community building, and I bring a founder's eye to reviewing contributor work and steering multidisciplinary technical teams from zero-to-one.
Event operations and experiential curation. I design, budget, produce, and run multi-track events and international symposia. I build the programming, set the creative direction, and handle the logistics that decide whether a room full of people actually connects or just sits there.
On the side I'm writing an experimental book on consciousness, dreams, non-human intelligence, cosmological physics, and psychology. I also run BLAXXKY, an independent magazine about technology, space, and philosophy.
If you're building something early-stage and need someone who can direct the creative vision, run the logistics, and deliver on a deadline, let's talk. Find me on Signal (stellarmagnet.77) or LinkedIn.com
Over 18 years I've launched enterprise products at Oracle, co-founded a decentralized space agency (studied in an academic thesis), and helped raise over $50M for Julian Assange's legal defense. I work where product strategy, systems engineering, design, and community meet. My specialty is the chaotic early-stage stretch: naming a thing, shaping its direction, and getting it across the finish line.
My work splits into two modes.
Product leadership and creative direction. I define what gets built. I scope the initial feature set, set the strategic roadmap, and prioritize the backlog, then shape the parts people actually touch: the name, the look, the positioning, the user experience. I'm hands-on in graphic design, technical writing, AI art, and community building, and I bring a founder's eye to reviewing contributor work and steering multidisciplinary technical teams from zero-to-one.
Event operations and experiential curation. I design, budget, produce, and run multi-track events and international symposia. I build the programming, set the creative direction, and handle the logistics that decide whether a room full of people actually connects or just sits there.
On the side I'm writing an experimental book on consciousness, dreams, non-human intelligence, cosmological physics, and psychology. I also run BLAXXKY, an independent magazine about technology, space, and philosophy.
If you're building something early-stage and need someone who can direct the creative vision, run the logistics, and deliver on a deadline, let's talk. Find me on Signal (stellarmagnet.77) or LinkedIn.com
Highlights and Milestones (2016-Present)
I believe in taking bold risks to ground visionary dreams into reality, operating from a foundation of hope and optimism to unfold more beautiful, liberatory possibilities for humanity. This philosophy drove my nearly decade-long exploration (2016–2025) into the frontier where open-source software, free speech, censorship resistance, and cryptocurrency intersect.
Decentalized Autonomous Space Agency Era (2016-2021)
In late 2016, I co-founded Space Cooperative, a worker-owned cooperative with a mission to build a citizen-led, crowdsourced, and crowdfunded space program. This vision eventually evolved into Space Decentral, a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) designed to orchestrate open space exploration.
I built the DAO tooling through Autark, the software development company in the Space Decentral network which I founded and ran as CEO. I raised over $800K in grants and owned the product end-to-end: vision, strategy, UX, testing, and the launch of a full suite of collaborative decentralized applications (dApps) called Open Enterprise. I managed an agile team of seven engineers, designers, and marketers through QA and the deployment of the foundational smart contracts (while even debugging some Solidity “stack too deep" errors myself). I ran the user research, mapped the interaction flows, designed the interfaces for the Space Decentral Network, and I drove the design of Open Enterprise alongside a product designer I hired and mentored.
I was also the project's primary public face, taking it to the stage at major international conferences: the UK Space Conference, Devcon 4, Web3 Summit, the Global Space Exploration Conference (GLEX), the International Astronautical Congress (IAC), and the Starship Congress.
The work drew attention well beyond the space and crypto worlds. In 2018 I took part in Seven on Seven (7x7), Rhizome's program at the New Museum that pairs technologists with artists to make something new. Paired with artist Dena Yago, we premiered the first chapter of Cardboard Friction, a sci-fi story about a decentralized autonomous organization going up against a tyrannical e-commerce company. Space Decentral was also covered in Vice and became the subject of an academic master’s thesis. The project was admittedly ahead of its time and never launched, tangled in legal complications, but it made history in decentralized space development.
I believe in taking bold risks to ground visionary dreams into reality, operating from a foundation of hope and optimism to unfold more beautiful, liberatory possibilities for humanity. This philosophy drove my nearly decade-long exploration (2016–2025) into the frontier where open-source software, free speech, censorship resistance, and cryptocurrency intersect.
Decentalized Autonomous Space Agency Era (2016-2021)
In late 2016, I co-founded Space Cooperative, a worker-owned cooperative with a mission to build a citizen-led, crowdsourced, and crowdfunded space program. This vision eventually evolved into Space Decentral, a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) designed to orchestrate open space exploration.
I built the DAO tooling through Autark, the software development company in the Space Decentral network which I founded and ran as CEO. I raised over $800K in grants and owned the product end-to-end: vision, strategy, UX, testing, and the launch of a full suite of collaborative decentralized applications (dApps) called Open Enterprise. I managed an agile team of seven engineers, designers, and marketers through QA and the deployment of the foundational smart contracts (while even debugging some Solidity “stack too deep" errors myself). I ran the user research, mapped the interaction flows, designed the interfaces for the Space Decentral Network, and I drove the design of Open Enterprise alongside a product designer I hired and mentored.
I was also the project's primary public face, taking it to the stage at major international conferences: the UK Space Conference, Devcon 4, Web3 Summit, the Global Space Exploration Conference (GLEX), the International Astronautical Congress (IAC), and the Starship Congress.
The work drew attention well beyond the space and crypto worlds. In 2018 I took part in Seven on Seven (7x7), Rhizome's program at the New Museum that pairs technologists with artists to make something new. Paired with artist Dena Yago, we premiered the first chapter of Cardboard Friction, a sci-fi story about a decentralized autonomous organization going up against a tyrannical e-commerce company. Space Decentral was also covered in Vice and became the subject of an academic master’s thesis. The project was admittedly ahead of its time and never launched, tangled in legal complications, but it made history in decentralized space development.
Zine and Event Production (2020-2025)
After the space agency chapter I went smaller and sharper: highly curated work at the intersection of independent print, digital media, and live events, all under Black Sky Society. Black Sky was dedicated to advancing decentralized infrastructure, privacy-preserving technologies, and digital sovereignty. It brought together thinkers, artists, scientists, and technologists in experimental spaces where research and art met.
After the space agency chapter I went smaller and sharper: highly curated work at the intersection of independent print, digital media, and live events, all under Black Sky Society. Black Sky was dedicated to advancing decentralized infrastructure, privacy-preserving technologies, and digital sovereignty. It brought together thinkers, artists, scientists, and technologists in experimental spaces where research and art met.
I founded it and owned the full production lifecycle, leading a distributed team of 20+ global contributors. Grant writing and fundraising (over $250,000 in sponsorships), creative branding, social media, programming and curation, multi-track scheduling, attendee registration. Day one to closing night.
That work shipped as two publications, the Black Sky Nexus digital zine and the Post-Web print zine, alongside a run of events: Azimuth (virtual, December '20), Autonomous Ecologies (Denver, March '23, and Paris, July '23), Ephemeral (Istanbul '23), and the Post-Web Séance (Brussels '24).
That work shipped as two publications, the Black Sky Nexus digital zine and the Post-Web print zine, alongside a run of events: Azimuth (virtual, December '20), Autonomous Ecologies (Denver, March '23, and Paris, July '23), Ephemeral (Istanbul '23), and the Post-Web Séance (Brussels '24).
Radicle (Sep 2023 - July 2024)
I was lead author of the user and protocol guides for Radicle 1.0, and I set the project's visual direction, conceiving the alien-themed AI art that became its aesthetic. I built the product roadmap in Notion and ran the workshops and working groups that prioritized it. I also designed and produced the launch's in-person and virtual events including branding, registration management, and social, plus contributed to strategy and outreach for the 1.0 launch itself.
I was lead author of the user and protocol guides for Radicle 1.0, and I set the project's visual direction, conceiving the alien-themed AI art that became its aesthetic. I built the product roadmap in Notion and ran the workshops and working groups that prioritized it. I also designed and produced the launch's in-person and virtual events including branding, registration management, and social, plus contributed to strategy and outreach for the 1.0 launch itself.
AssangeDAO (Winter 2021/2022)
As an early contributor, I ran project management, governance strategy, war room operations, social media, and volunteer coordination for a campaign that raised over $50M for Julian Assange's legal defense. The fundraise played a key role in the wider campaign for his eventual freedom and set new precedents for what DAO-powered activism could do.
As an early contributor, I ran project management, governance strategy, war room operations, social media, and volunteer coordination for a campaign that raised over $50M for Julian Assange's legal defense. The fundraise played a key role in the wider campaign for his eventual freedom and set new precedents for what DAO-powered activism could do.
Laconic Network (Apr 2021 - Sep 2021)
I helped raise over $140K in grants, wrote the product specs, organized the roadmap, managed the engineering teams, and reviewed the white paper, plus contributed to the systems engineering diagrams. I also introduced founder Rick Dudley to the co-founder who went on to help close an $8M raise for the project.
I helped raise over $140K in grants, wrote the product specs, organized the roadmap, managed the engineering teams, and reviewed the white paper, plus contributed to the systems engineering diagrams. I also introduced founder Rick Dudley to the co-founder who went on to help close an $8M raise for the project.
Misc. Organizations (2018-2022)
I've dabbled in other corners of the crypto world too: BrightID (early UX design, 2018), Dark Wallet (stealth mobile wallet concepts, 2019), BaseZero (multi-signature wallet product design, 2019), Althea (router dashboard UX, 2019), MolochDAO (managing a $4M grants treasury and co-writing the DAO handbook, 2020-2022), and DarkFi (homepage information architecture, 2022).
I've dabbled in other corners of the crypto world too: BrightID (early UX design, 2018), Dark Wallet (stealth mobile wallet concepts, 2019), BaseZero (multi-signature wallet product design, 2019), Althea (router dashboard UX, 2019), MolochDAO (managing a $4M grants treasury and co-writing the DAO handbook, 2020-2022), and DarkFi (homepage information architecture, 2022).
Past Life (2003-2016)
Before any of this, I spent over a decade in the corporate and startup worlds as a hybrid product manager, project engineer, and UI/UX designer. It ended in a Senior Product Manager role at Oracle.The foundation was engineering. I earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley (2003–2008) and cut my teeth as an engineering intern and project engineer at DMJM Harris and Lea+Elliott, turning dense data sets into transit ridership models and technical reports for major municipal clients.
After graduating I moved into digital media at LimeLife (2008). As an Associate Product Manager I ran market research, designed the user flows and interaction specs for the "MySnaps" social shopping community, and handled QA. That's where human-centered design got its hooks in me, enough that I later formalized it with a User Experience course at the Academy of Art University (2015).
From 2010 to 2014 I sharpened my execution across startups and enterprise. At the email marketing startup Tactara I worked as Scrum Master and Product Evangelist, running usability studies and designing campaign scheduling tools that drove a 10x jump in workflow productivity. Then at Oracle (2014–2016) I ran end-to-end product lifecycles across matrixed enterprise teams, turning dense business rules into clean dashboard designs and project portfolio management (PPM) tools.
What pulled me out was space. I capped off this chapter with an Astronautical Engineering Certificate from UCLA Extension (2016, 4.0 GPA), a deep run through space systems engineering and rocket propulsion. That was the bridge: it carried me out of the corporate world and into the decentralized aerospace and DAO work I'd go on to build.
Before any of this, I spent over a decade in the corporate and startup worlds as a hybrid product manager, project engineer, and UI/UX designer. It ended in a Senior Product Manager role at Oracle.The foundation was engineering. I earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley (2003–2008) and cut my teeth as an engineering intern and project engineer at DMJM Harris and Lea+Elliott, turning dense data sets into transit ridership models and technical reports for major municipal clients.
After graduating I moved into digital media at LimeLife (2008). As an Associate Product Manager I ran market research, designed the user flows and interaction specs for the "MySnaps" social shopping community, and handled QA. That's where human-centered design got its hooks in me, enough that I later formalized it with a User Experience course at the Academy of Art University (2015).
From 2010 to 2014 I sharpened my execution across startups and enterprise. At the email marketing startup Tactara I worked as Scrum Master and Product Evangelist, running usability studies and designing campaign scheduling tools that drove a 10x jump in workflow productivity. Then at Oracle (2014–2016) I ran end-to-end product lifecycles across matrixed enterprise teams, turning dense business rules into clean dashboard designs and project portfolio management (PPM) tools.
What pulled me out was space. I capped off this chapter with an Astronautical Engineering Certificate from UCLA Extension (2016, 4.0 GPA), a deep run through space systems engineering and rocket propulsion. That was the bridge: it carried me out of the corporate world and into the decentralized aerospace and DAO work I'd go on to build.
