Who are you, and what are you allowed to touch?
That one question is my whole job. On login.gov it means proving someone is real before they reach a benefit, on a platform serving 100 million accounts. On a mobile driver's license, it's the same proof, cryptographic, in your pocket. Lately I think about it for AI, because the hardest version isn't about people anymore. I write here while I work through it.
What I write about
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You Shouldn't Have to Show Your Address to Buy a Beer
Why selective disclosure is the whole point of the mobile driver's license, explained at a bar.
I Used to Think I Was 'Too Much.' Then I Realized I Was Just in the Wrong Room.
On heartbreak, nervous system upgrades, and learning to trust your own depth.
I built my first mDL demo, and the seamlessness is what hooked me
I simulated buying alcohol online with a mobile driver's license and shared exactly one fact: am I over 21. That was the moment I got hooked, and the moment I started asking why every state builds this differently.
What a mobile driver's license actually is, and why my state got me paying attention
A mobile driver's license is not a photo of your license. It is a signed credential that lets you prove one thing without revealing everything, and it is quietly becoming infrastructure.
Voice Agent Architecture: A Deep Dive into Real-Time Processing
Exploring the complete architecture of an on-device voice agent with cloud processing, Go middleware, and AI categorization.
Building an AI Companion for Vision Pro
Starting a production journey to create an intelligent 3D avatar assistant for spatial computing.
I work on identity verification and access control, and I write about the parts most writeups leave out.
Day to day, that means identity-proofing and access flows on login.gov, a NIST 800-63 IAL2 identity provider, where my work sits on the identity-verification layer. Alongside that I drove the evaluation of mobile driver's license verifiers (ISO 18013-5) for a NIST use case, and I do cleared identity and access work for defense systems.
I write here to think in public. When a claim has a source, you will find it linked. More about me and how I work →