The founder is the thesis.

I commanded a JROTC corps of 200 cadets at one of the lowest-performing high schools in America — a place where overpromise-and-underdeliver was the institutional default. Rank there couldn't be claimed, only witnessed: promotion happened in front of people who watched you do the work, drill by drill, month after month.

I survived Category-5 Typhoon Mawar on Guam. I was admitted to West Point and the Naval Academy — and declined both to study CS and HCI at Stanford ('29) and build the trust system I grew up inside, as infrastructure.

Now, as AI makes every credential — the portfolio, the GitHub graph, the endorsement — free to counterfeit, the one thing it can't fake is the thing I've spent my whole life managing: real human effort, confirmed by real people who put their name on it.

I'm not building a tool I imagined; I'm building the one I needed.