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Web3 · Intellectual Property
NFT Patents Project
A full-stack platform that helps inventors tokenize and protect intellectual property. ERC-721 contracts behind a React frontend with wallet integration and IPFS-backed patent metadata.
AI/ML engineer · security · builder
Tim Illguth
Twelve years securing federal infrastructure and networks, now building in post-quantum cryptography, AI/ML, and smart contract security.
12Years in federal infrastructure & security
~4,400Linux endpoints under management
3Industry certifications (LPIC, NSE4, Juniper)
6Websites designed & built
01 / Selected work
What I've built.
Projects spanning smart contract security, post-quantum infrastructure, federal systems, and practical products.
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DeFi · Security
Uniswap Clone
A constant-product automated market maker with liquidity pools and token swaps, plus protections against reentrancy, race conditions, and MEV.
SQQ
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Post-Quantum · Layer 1
SoQuCoin
Volunteer smart contract security lead on a Scrypt-based proof-of-work Layer 1 implementing NIST FIPS 204 post-quantum signatures. I ran the initial codebase security audit and continue reviewing the protocol.
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Infrastructure · 12 years
University of Alaska Fairbanks – Alaska Satellite Facility (NASA DAAC)
Sole network administrator for petabyte-scale scientific data systems: network architecture, firewall policy, BGP/OSPF routing, Kubernetes platforms, and FISMA/NIST 800-53 compliance. Designed and deployed a Fortinet ZTNA VPN.
02 / Web design studio
Golden Heart Web Design — selected sites.
A web-design studio I run on the side. Selected client and personal sites:
goldenheartwebdesign.com ↗03 / What I bring
One career.
Four disciplines.
My best work happens where security, infrastructure, software, and storytelling overlap.
AI / ML Engineering
Systems, not shortcuts
Training and deploying computer vision (YOLO26) and regression models in production, with MLOps on Azure Machine Learning. Alongside that: context engineering, agentic workflows, and privacy-minded local inference.
Blockchain Security
Production Solidity and smart contract security
Production DeFi, contract audits, DAO systems, AMMs, and security review on a post-quantum Layer 1.
Linux Infrastructure
Fleet scale
Twelve years at a NASA DAAC and package, patch, and configuration management across ~4,400 Linux endpoints.
Builder & Author
Ideas made tangible
Golden Heart Web Design, an outdoor rental company, and The Hollowing speculative-fiction series.
04 / Field notes
Ideas worth sharing.
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Mar 28, 2026 · 10 min
This Article Might Make You Upset
Don't be upset. This isn't just another AI feature update that you have to train up for. On March 7, 2026, Andrej Karpathy released AutoResearch and quietly gave developers a superpower. Here's what it is, why it matters, and why developers who understand it are now operating at a categorically different speed.
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Jan 12, 2026 · 10 min
Ahead of the Race: How to Design Your Web3 App Against Race Conditions
Learn how to protect your Web3 applications from front-running, sandwich attacks, and reentrancy vulnerabilities with battle-tested design patterns from a real AMM audit.
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Feb 20, 2024 · 12 min
Thoughts on Thread-Safe Blockchain Development
Deep dive into the challenges and best practices for building thread-safe applications in blockchain development, with practical examples and solutions.
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Have an ambitious
problem to solve?
I'm open to work at the intersection of security, blockchain, AI, and infrastructure.
timillguthak@gmail.com ↗timillguth.eth · Available worldwide