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senior software engineer · Omaha, NE I've been programming basically my whole life. I specialize in being brought in to figure out what's gone wrong, and to see what's going to break before it does. I really like figuring stuff out and solving problems and doing research and I am pretty good at it I think. I recently wrote the multi-platform, pure C, no-dependencies version of the Copy Fail (CVE-2026-31431) exploit proof-of-concept. Besides that, lately I have been working on different audio DSP projects, maintaining an mTLS library that AWS API Gateway documentation recommends, red-teaming, and accidentally inventing a Vocaloid. I run a consultancy, Crash United, LLC, and I'm open to senior IC / staff roles and fixed-scope work. |
klattsch 340+ ★ |
A parallel-formant speech synthesizer that runs in the browser, built from 1980 DSP papers as a joke. Then it got loose: 9M+ impressions on the launch post, trended on X, and adopted by the Vocaloid scene as an actual instrument. Try it. |
copy-fail-c 400+ ★ |
Portable C port of CVE-2026-31431 (Copy Fail, a Linux local privilege escalation). Cited in Florian Roth's signature-base YARA detection rules, among others. |
| client-certificate-auth | Node.js mTLS middleware, recommended in the AWS API Gateway docs. 270K+ npm installs, maintained since 2013. |
| Nuked-OPL3-fast | Hand-optimized OPL3 FM-synthesis emulator: 1.4 to 2.2x faster and still bit-exact. Pulled upstream into dosbox-staging, DOSBox-X, 86Box, and more. |
| uls | Rust toolkit for FCC ULS license data. |
| The GPG Guide 2026 | A 376-page guide to modern GnuPG. |
- 30 years deep in working in embedded, legacy, and other strange systems, AND on the latest most bleeding edge stuff (so basically broken stuff, just two different kinds of broken stuff)
- DevOps stuff
- AI red-teaming
- An embedded IoT product I got running in the field after it had spent four years stuck in failed testing.
- A secret skunkworks project that will change fonts forever imvho
- Tons of "because I can" projects for reasons I can't fully justify
- I make music also. Remind me to put some links here