I am a technical consultant in the space of affordable Internet infrastructure, particularly as it applies to supporting underserved populations. As necessary, I hack on large open-source codebases, mount antennas and deploy hardware, administer and support networks remotely, teach networking skills and workshops, and contribute to policy proposals. I am best known for my work on open5gs, the Community LTE Project, and the Tribal Broadband Bootcamps, of which I was a co-founder. I collaborate closely with Kurtis Heimerl, the ICTD Lab at the University of Washington, and Althea Networks.

My work on international connectivity has been profiled by GeekWire, Seattle Magazine, and Eye on the Arctic, and my work on open-source LTE has won fellowships from the University of California, Amazon Catalyst, and third prize in the Mozilla Wireless Innovations for a Networked Society (WINS) Challenge. In my academic life, I have published 22 peer-reviewed papers, including two “best paper” awards (IFIP 2013, ICNP 2015) and hold 10 US patents. I received my PhD from UC Santa Cruz in 2017, where I worked withJ.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves on novel Internet routing architectures.