Every technical system rests on an assumption its builders have stopped seeing. My work is finding the one that is both load-bearing and wrong, then building and proving what should replace it.
Systems researcher and technical expert with twenty-two years of commercial work on Windows file systems and storage internals. PhD from UBC (2025) under Margo Seltzer and Ada Gavrilovska. Twelve issued US patents; co-author of lex & yacc (O'Reilly, 1990) and Windows NT Device Driver Development (New Riders, 1998). Current work spans LLM reliability and observability research, AI governance for financial services, and ontology construction for regulated decision systems.
Consulting
Fractional CTO, technical architect, and advisory engagements for teams shipping AI-adjacent products, including technical due diligence on AI reliability claims. An unusual pairing of deep systems foundations and active AI research: the depth to evaluate technical assertions rather than repeat them.
Consulting overview →Expert witness
Court-tested expert testimony across BC Supreme Court, US federal district courts, and USPTO proceedings. Patent infringement, trade-secret, and software-defect litigation, with an emerging position for LLM-related litigation grounded in active research on AI agent reliability.
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