What I'm building now

Last updated June 29, 2026.

Everything I work on points at the same thing: take the tools that used to live behind an institutional door, and put them in more hands. Open access, open source, open door. Here's where that's pointed this season.

Current focus

Lattice Protocol

The through-line. Federated compute and verifiable provenance, so that compute is never rare for rare-disease researchers — small modules that compose into lattices, lattices that federate across nodes, every result carrying a trail you can check. It's open source, and it's where most of my nights go.

World Genome Academy

Palm-sized DNA sequencers — about $1,000, roughly the size of a stapler — in the hands of high-school students and regenerative farmers, reading the living biology of California's soil and coastline. The readings land in a shared eDNA atlas, and the communities who generate the data sit on the councils that govern it. Education, agriculture, and ocean science, all on one cooperative trust.

Rare-disease AI infrastructure

With the Wilhelm Foundation: open-weight models and an evaluation toolkit on the Rare AI Archive, plus the hackathon format where clinicians, patients, and AI work the same case together for 48 hours. My part is the infrastructure for diagnosis — the tooling, the benchmarks, the format — not a story about any one person. No disease is too rare to matter.

Context Commons

A community effort to make agentic literacy ordinary — helping people use these new tools well, together, instead of alone and a little intimidated. Same instinct as the rest: share the tool, then get out of the way.

Mentorship and community

I'm still mentoring through DeepChem and Google Summer of Code, because open knowledge compounds. And the community heartbeat stays Science Sunday at The KINN in Venice Beach — part science fair, part hackathon, part beach party, where a marine biologist ends up next to a high-school student. Contribution is the credential.