About

I'm David. I work as the one person data team at Protocol Labs.

I build data systems for open networks, public goods, and communities. I care about making data useful for people.

I write about open data portals,local friendly data projects,making agents more reliable, andI share tons of notes I write while learning.

Working on:

• Data platforms and open datasets
• Public goods funding and impact evaluation
• Agentic engineering and AI assisted data work
• Decentralized protocols and open infrastructure

Values

• Keep systems small and understandable
• Prefer plain files, open tools, and reproducible workflows
• Write things down so others and future me can build on them
• Start with experiments and tighten the feedback loop

Interests

• Open data and public goods
• Agentic engineering
• Decentralized protocols (AT Protocol, Blockchains, ...)
• Tools for thought
• Games, music, and learning odd things