Trained as an astrophysicist, I have always been a scientist at heart. I started my career as an open source developer at JBoss. After the successful exit of JBoss (acq'ed by Red Hat), I went back to academia and was awarded several million dollars in research funding from the NIH (National Institutes of Health) to study digital healthcare. I am now once again working on an open source startup to build the next generation infrastructure for AI agents on the edge and in the cloud. I am
- 🦄 Research and Products at ByteTrade Labs. Ask me about how to
- reduce and optimize your AI spending via hybrid inference, and
- turn your AI interactions into a knowledge base (company brain).
- ⚙️ Creator of VibeKeys, the original vibe coding keyboard + remote control
- 🚀 Founder and maintainer of Linux Foundation / CNCF's WebAssembly-based cloud infra project: WasmEdge.
- 💰 Venture Partner at SIG Ventures investing in early stage tech and crypto teams.
- 📚 Author of 6 books on software engineering, and many articles and peer-reviewed research papers.
- 🧬 Principal Investigator (PI) for several NIH (National Institutes of Health) funded research projects.
Fun facts about me:
- 🔭 My PhD dissertation was about super-massive blackholes in QSOs.
- 🗞 I once published an article on the New York Times.
Recent research papers:
- "The Economics of AI Decoding Chips," arXiv
- "Trust, but verify," IEEE Computer, 2026. arXiv
- "A lightweight design for serverless Function-as-a-Service," IEEE Software, 2021. arXiv
eBooks and online courses:
- Open Source LLMs on Your Own Computer, published by Manning in 2024. It is one of the best-selling online courses published by Manning!
Popular videos and conference talks:
- Rust is the language of AGI, AI Engineer World's Fair, San Francisco, 2025.
- Keynote: An Optimized Linux Stack for GenAI Workloads, KubeCon by Linux Foundation, Hong Kong 2025.
- Translate tech talks using open-source models and cloud-native Wasm, Wasm I/O, Barcelona 2025.
- Keynote: New Advances for Cross-platform AI Applications in Docker, AI Dev Conference, Paris 2024.
- Wasm Is Becoming the Runtime for LLMs, KubeCon by Linux Foundation, Chicago 2023.
- Build, Share, Run WebAssembly Apps Using the Docker Toolchain, KubeCon by Linux Foundation, Detroit 2022.
Books I wrote:
- Building Blockchain Apps. Published by Addison-Wesley in 2019.
- Seam Framework: Experience the Evolution of Java EE. Published by Prentice Hall in 2009.
- JBoss Seam: Simplicity and Power Beyond Java EE. Published by Prentice Hall in 2007.
- Nokia Smartphone Hacks: Tips & Tools for Your Smallest Computer. Published by O'Reilly Media in 2005.
- Developing Scalable Series 40 Applications: A Guide For Java Developers. Published by Addison-Wesley in 2004.
- Enterprise J2ME: Developing Mobile Java Applications. Published by Prentice Hall in 2003.
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