Making A do B by any means available.

Hacker who treats everything as fair game. I build things. Production backends, spec'd-out fingerprint algorithms, mobile apps, IoT prototypes.

My personal goal is to be able to go from idea to software/physical product POC entirely myself.

• Automatic Ripping Machine: ~4.8k★, my biggest FOSS project. Webapp + headless rip-and-encode pipeline for DVDs, Blu-rays, and CDs. Currently working on v3 development.
• matrix256: a reproducible SHA-256 fingerprint spec for DVD/HD-DVD/Blu-ray media, computed from disc-native bytes only. Same disc, same digest, anywhere. Reference implementations in Python, Rust, Go, and JavaScript, plus a Dockerized conformance corpus of open-content ISOs.
• shiwoma, LLC: my consulting company. Also building a production-grade SaaS backend-in-a-box: auth, orgs, billing & tax, storage, OAuth. Battle-tested under real traffic for over a year.
• NoFunNeal: Go agent that discovers every possible combination in Neal Fun's Infinite Craft. Open dataset here. No longer running, didn't want to break his servers.
• Unnamed IoT device: will be the most secure and private device in it's class once it's done.
• FANUM: A game bible for a friendslop game about building cathedrals.

Archiving. The web rots, physical media degrades, and metadata services key on human-entered titles that drift across regions and editions. ARM solves the rip-and-encode side; matrix256 solves the identification side with a stable, byte-derived disc identifier that doesn't depend on TMDB's mood.

Privacy. Building tools that let people own their data and presence. Privacy-first IoT devices, ephemeral webpage experiments, local-first RTSP relays. Default to "the server doesn't need to know that."

Embedded. Currently learning the stack. Goal: be as comfortable on a microcontroller as I am on a backend.

Hacker culture. DEFCON regular (feet-feud is one of the events I help run).

"welcome to the island of misfit toys, we all look after each other here"

Active and vocal member of the San Antonio tech and security community. I give talks on the projects above and have volunteered at BSidesSATX. If you're local and building something interesting, find me.

A meaningful chunk of my work is in private repos and toy projects to learn concepts. Shiwoma's product surface, trading systems, and a handful of weirder one-offs (including the world's first malware for TempleOS). Happy to walk through any of it for the right conversation.

• Email: wolfy@shitwolfymakes.com
• Twitter/X: @shitwolfymakes
• LinkedIn: shitwolfymakes
• Substack: shitwolfymakes.substack.com
• Kofi: ko-fi.com/shitwolfymakes
• Open to work: yes