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Web3 · Intellectual Property
NFT Patents Project
A full-stack platform that helps inventors tokenize and protect intellectual property with NFTs and IPFS—from smart contracts to an AI-assisted frontend.
Security engineer · builder · author
Deep systems.
Real-world impact.
I secure infrastructure at scale, build adversarially resilient blockchain systems, and use AI to turn difficult ideas into working products.
0Years at NASA
0Servers managed
0Certifications
0Live client sites
01 / Selected work
Built where success matters.
Projects spanning smart-contract security, post-quantum infrastructure, government systems, and practical products.
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DeFi · Security
Uniswap Clone
A production-minded automated market maker with liquidity pools, token swaps, flash loans, and protections against reentrancy, race conditions, and MEV.
SQQ
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Post-Quantum · Layer 1
SoQuCoin
Security architecture for a Scrypt-based proof-of-work blockchain implementing NIST FIPS 204 post-quantum signatures and institutional-grade DeFi infrastructure.
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Infrastructure · 14 years
NASA Alaska Satellite Facility
Mission-critical network security for petabyte-scale scientific data systems, including Zero Trust access, Kubernetes platforms, and FISMA/NIST 800-53 compliance.
02 / In production
Not concepts. Live businesses.
03 / What I bring
One career.
Four disciplines.
My best work happens where security, infrastructure, software, and storytelling overlap.
AI Engineering
Systems, not shortcuts
Context engineering, prompt pipelines, agentic workflows, evaluations, and privacy-minded local inference.
Blockchain Security
Built for adversarial environments
Production DeFi, contract audits, DAO systems, AMMs, and post-quantum Layer 1 architecture.
Linux Infrastructure
Mission scale
Fourteen years at NASA and responsibility for more than 4,600 Linux servers at nationwide scale.
Builder & Author
Ideas made tangible
Small-business websites, 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 high-impact infrastructure.
timillguthak@gmail.com ↗timillguth.eth · Available worldwide