👋 Hi, I'm @dlebee — a software engineer with 19+ years of professional experience, programming since 2007, currently serving as Head of Engineering and Chief Software Architect at Gluwa Inc.

🏗️ I'm a systems architect at heart. I enjoy working below the abstraction layer — understanding how distributed systems actually behave across networking, consensus, state, infrastructure, and failure boundaries, then turning that understanding into production systems.

⛓️ My work spans blockchain infrastructure, distributed systems, protocol design, and backend engineering, including Layer 1 / Layer 2 architecture, EVM and Polkadot SDK/Substrate systems, consensus and finality, state transitions, validator infrastructure, protocol economics, and RPC architecture.

🔄 I'm actively participating in the development of the Attestcoin cross-chain protocol, working on cross-chain messaging, state verification, relayers, attestation models, finality assumptions, and interoperability across heterogeneous blockchain networks.

🌐 I'm a core network developer for Space Router Onion, building production privacy-network infrastructure in Rust and Go with QUIC transport, multi-hop circuit routing, connection isolation, relay and exit-node architecture, bandwidth/QoS metering, and interoperability between independent implementations.

🔐 Much of that work focuses on privacy-preserving and decentralized networking — onion routing, decentralized node discovery, on-chain staking and coordination, geographic circuit selection, NAT and connection tracking, deterministic routing strategies, and end-to-end circuit integrity verification.

🛰️ I'm also working on distributed oracle systems, particularly where decentralized data acquisition, attestation, reputation, trust minimization, and cross-chain verification intersect with Space Router Onion and broader decentralized infrastructure.

🧩 Exploring zero-knowledge systems and modern cryptography, including Groth16, PLONK, STARKs, recursive proofs, hash-function trade-offs, fraud proofs, data availability, and how cryptographic systems can be made practical enough for real infrastructure.

🤖 I use AI and agent-based engineering workflows heavily in day-to-day development — orchestrating ephemeral test networks, analyzing artifacts and logs, validating protocol behavior, reviewing implementations, and building CI verification that catches infrastructure and integration problems before production.

⚙️ My background includes extensive work with C#/.NET and TypeScript/Node.js, alongside Rust, Go, Solidity, Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, databases, observability, and high-throughput backend systems.

🧠 I'm especially interested in problems where abstractions start leaking: concurrency, distributed state, consensus edge cases, network transport, RPC semantics, deterministic state transitions, interoperability boundaries, and the difference between how a protocol is described and how it actually behaves in production.

👥 As an engineering leader, I care about staying technically close to the systems we build — mentoring engineers, reviewing architecture, challenging assumptions, debugging across layers, and helping teams turn ambitious protocol ideas into incremental, operable software.

🎓 Building Interactive Blockchain Learning — interactive and visual tools for understanding blockchain and distributed-systems concepts.

✍️ Writing about blockchain, systems architecture, and engineering on Medium.

🤝 Open to collaborating on ambitious projects involving distributed systems, blockchain protocols, networking, privacy, distributed oracles, cryptography, interoperability, or high-performance infrastructure.