About

Hi, I'm Michael.

I spent my early years in the arts — playwriting, performing, reading Milton, absorbing everything Joseph Campbell ever recorded about the structure of stories. Then I studied optical engineering: how light moves through physical systems. Then computer science: how information moves through digital ones.

That's not three careers. It's one question asked three ways: how do you take something that exists in someone's mind and make it real?

I spent a decade building enterprise software. I learned how large systems work, and how they fail quietly. Then I moved into startups.

What Changed

One of those startups was Theranos.

I watched some of the best brand work I've ever seen applied to a foundation that couldn't support it. I saw what happens when a company says "trust us" instead of building systems that don't require trust.

That experience didn't give me opinions about privacy. It gave me convictions.

I don't collect what I don't need. I encrypt what I do. I build architectures where mass data extraction is technically infeasible — not because of a promise in the terms of service, but because of mathematics. Nothing to hand over. Nothing to subpoena. Nothing to leak.

History confirms this matters. Data collected for one purpose gets repurposed when power changes hands. The census that counted citizens becomes the list that sorted them. Threat models change. Architecture doesn't.

What I'm Building

A portfolio of software across creative production, business operations, events, and education — different domains, one belief: your work belongs to you. We build everything to keep it that way.

Every product works offline. You can export your data and leave whenever you want. Privacy isn't a feature bolted on after launch — it's an architectural decision made on day one. Software should be a tool, not a trap.

This website itself has zero analytics, zero cookies, and zero tracking scripts. I genuinely don't know how many people read this page. And I'm fine with that.

Get in Touch

Whether you're interested in consulting or speaking, have a question about one of the products, or just want to talk shop about privacy-first architecture — I'm happy to hear from you.

No contact form that stores your data. Just direct communication.