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Michael Tjemmes
focus: Applications · AI Systems · Rust · Infrastructure
I'm a software engineer who works across product interfaces, backend services, and production infrastructure. Recent work includes AI workflows and retrieval, isolated development environments, Rust SDKs, and secure networking.
// current and recent work
Avarok Cybersecurity— Founding Engineer · Current
Primary builder of Citadel Workspace and Citadel Agent, with continuing work on the underlying secure-networking SDK
Tangle— Full-Stack Engineer · Mar 2024–Sep 2026
Four AI applications, workflow and RAG systems, sandbox infrastructure, and the open-source Blueprint ecosystem
what i work on
The work
Applications & AI Systems
Product interfaces, backend services, agent workflows, retrieval, and isolated development environments built as complete systems.
Rust & Distributed Systems
Async services, networking protocols, WebAssembly targets, developer SDKs, and infrastructure for distributed applications.
Security & Cryptography
Quantum-resistant protocols, encrypted peer-to-peer networking, threshold signatures, authentication, and secure transports.
Game Development & Leadership
Unreal Engine gameplay architecture, AI, tools, optimization, and technical leadership for teams of up to 20 developers.
selected
Selected work
Personal Open Source
Sokuza
Personal, open-source AI development app in active development. Run it yourself and connect agent workflows to GitHub activity, cron schedules, webhooks, and other events for tasks such as PR review, bug fixing, security audits, and application testing.
open project
Decentralized Infrastructure
Blueprint SDK
SDK for building decentralized services across Tangle, EigenLayer, and EVM chains. P2P networking via libp2p, threshold signatures, multi-party computation, trusted execution environments, and WASM runtimes.
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Post-Quantum Networking
Citadel Protocol
Quantum-resistant secure networking in async Rust. Kyber, NTRU, and a custom 3D matrix ratcheting algorithm over TCP, TLS, QUIC, UDP, and WebRTC, with NAT traversal.
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AI Platform
Tangle AI Platform
Product and infrastructure work across Blueprint Agent, Sandbox, Tangle ID, and Tangle Router, with shared workflow, retrieval, identity, execution, and production systems used across the broader AI suite.
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