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Tinkerer first.
Researcher second.

I've been taking apart computers — and putting them back together — since I was a teenager. Started on Ubuntu and OpenSUSE around 2006, just because it was free and I was curious. That curiosity never really stopped.

During the 2017 crypto boom, GPUs went scarce and parents couldn't afford gaming PCs for their kids. So I started hitting Craigslist, sourcing parts — a GTX 960 here, an old i5 there — and cobbling together machines that could run Fortnite and Minecraft for $150–$200. Not fancy. Just functional. That was the whole point.

That same philosophy — use what's available, make it work, make it accessible — is exactly what drives CHIRASU today. The security industry says post-quantum migration is expensive and complicated. I say: not if you're creative about where you look.

I majored in astronomy before financial reality hit. I never graduated — but the way I think about systems, from subatomic noise to civilizational infrastructure, that's still very much an astrophysicist's lens. Every scale connects. Nothing is isolated.

By day I work as a parts coordinator. In the margins, I run a 20-node homelab, write post-quantum firmware in Rust and Go, play guitar in a band, and author a cyberpunk narrative universe that happens to share its philosophical DNA with my actual research. I don't separate these things. They're all the same inquiry.