I am somewhat of a “gun for hire” in the space of affordable and community-owned network infrastructure. As necessary, I hack on large open-source codebases, mount antennas and deploy hardware, administer and support cellular networks, write and present network trainings, and contribute to policy proposals. I am best known for my work on the Community LTE Project, which I have built and maintained since 2017. I collaborate closely with Kurtis Heimerl, the ICTD Lab at the University of Washington, and the Internet Society.
In my academic life, I have published 18 peer-reviewed papers, including two “best paper” awards (IFIP 2013, ICNP 2015) and hold 10 US patents. I have been awarded fellowships by the University of California and Amazon Catalyst for my work on open-source cellular networks, was profiled by both GeekWire and Seattle Magazine for my work on international connectivity, and won third prize in the Mozilla Wireless Innovations for a Networked Society (WINS) Challenge for building an entirely off-grid LTE network in Papua. I received my PhD from UC Santa Cruz in 2017, where I worked withJ.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves on novel Internet routing architectures.