Systems & Research Engineer
I find where an abstraction stops matching reality, then build the test that exposes the gap. My work spans AI evaluation, high-performance networking, scientific ML, protocol correctness, and autonomy, with an emphasis on independent evidence, explicit limitations, and public correction when later validation weakens an earlier result.
Real RDMA execution exposed four defects after 197 unit tests passed; the first attempted fix still failed on-device. Built a Soft-RoCE CI boundary that asserts no simulation fallback, exercises real verbs/sysfs state, and sends perftest traffic.
Audited a real-exploit benchmark and found severe author-injected prompt leakage in 13/24 examples. Downgraded the historical model score to a contaminated upper bound and added sanitizer invariants plus a locked paired remeasurement design.
On a static 18,928-structure perovskite screen, pretrained mean ranking reached DAF 5.15 at a 5% budget; the tested MC-dropout uncertainty signal had Spearman σ↔|error| = −0.47, and overweighting it pushed acquisition below random.
Build distributed systems, cryptographic protocols, transaction infrastructure, and adversarial-reliability tooling.
Autonomy/hardware program reduced to a falsifiable recovery prototype. Current artifacts include design, CAD, simulation, controller logic, and acceptance gates; physical recovery performance remains explicitly unproven until telemetry exists.
George Mason University — studied Economics & Computer Science; left in 2017 to work full-time. Blockchain at Mason — co-founded the student-run, faculty-supported organization in 2016–2017; grew to 90+ members. Full formation →
197 passing tests, four real-hardware bugs · A benchmark can measure its own metadata · Upstream is a different kind of test
I’m most interested in teams where correctness has to survive contact with reality: AI evaluation and inference systems, low-level networking and distributed infrastructure, scientific ML, protocol/cryptographic systems, and autonomy where software eventually has to cross a physical boundary.
layerinfinite@gmail.com · 0xsoftboi.github.io · github.com/0xSoftBoi