I live in the North East of England and I am a Software Developer working on NATS at Synadia. I have a keen interest in security, privacy, decentralised systems and computer networking. I also have experience in end-user compute and enterprise-scale systems architecture.
Latest
- 05 Jun 2024 — Comments on Canonical JSON in Matrix
- 29 Aug 2021 — Go is pass-by-value — but it might not always feel like it
- 09 Apr 2021 — Read receipts, presence and typing notifications should be disabled by default
Projects
yggdrasil (Maintainer, GitHub, Website) — A cross-platform prototype of an end-to-end encrypted IPv6 overlay network, written in Go. It implements a new and experimental compact routing scheme based around a globally-agreed spanning tree.
pinecone (Author, GitHub) — A prototype of a name-independent, self-healing compact routing scheme, designed for mesh networks and peer-to-peer applications, written in Go. Originally created to underpin the P2P Matrix project.
dendrite (Contributor, GitHub, Website) — A next-generation Matrix homeserver, written in Go, designed to operate at scales ranging from single-user embedded homeservers to large-scale polylith deployments.
jnacl (Author, GitHub) — Pure Java implementation of some NaCl ECC encryption and authentication primitives, including the Curve25519 elliptic curve, Xsalsa20 stream cipher and Poly1305 message authentication algorithm.
Contact
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