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Totals Journal × 5, Patent × 1, Conference × 34, Preprint × 4, Workshop × 6, Poster × 6, Report × 3 2025 # Preprint Matteo Bjornsson, Taylor Hardin, Taylor Heinecke, Marcin Furtak, David L. Millman and Mike P. Wittie “ZipperChain: Transmuting Trusted Third-Party Services Into Trustless Atomic Broadcast” November 2025. arXiv 2024 # Conference Batuhan Mekiker and Mike P. Wittie…
Documentation drifts because it isn’t held to the same integrity standards as code. Literate documentation (co-located prose and executable artifacts, build-time execution, shared variables, output assertions, and reproducible environments) a continuously verified contract between engineers and users over documented system behavior.
I build secure, high-performance distributed systems. I tend to understand complex systems in terms of primitives that compete in a Darwinian sense for inclusion in the architectures we construct. The best primitives survive because they are simple, composable, measurable, and defensible. I enjoy discovering, building, benchmarking, and advocating for the adoption of strong primitives to overcome…