Harlan Wood
United States
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Top SchoolHarlan Wood is a Lead AI Engineer and seasoned technology leader with over two decades of experience building AI-driven, decentralized, and full-stack systems that scale from prototype to production. He has led engineering teams as CTO/CAIO and architected platforms integrating 30+ LLMs and image models, real-time AI voice, and payment systems while optimizing infrastructure for low latency and reliability. Creator of TrustGraph and CoreNexus, he blends cryptographic, blockchain, and reputation research with practical product engineering to reimagine trust and social impact. His open-source contributions include refactoring persistence and local-first support for Ward Cunningham’s Smallest Federated Wiki and expanding JSON-LD signing capabilities—work that reflects a long-standing focus on interoperable, decentralized data. Comfortable moving between hands-on coding and high-level system design, he consistently turns complex research ideas into production-ready tools that amplify human capabilities.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at University of Technology Sydney
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Github Skills (33)
json10
couchdb10
javascript10
bitcoin10
bitcoins10
ruby10
sinatra10
json-ld10
api-design9
restful-api9
ssl9
api-rest9
web-content9
webpages9
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Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
WardCunningham/Smallest-Federated-Wiki
Apr 2012 - Jun 2013
This wiki innovates by: 1. federated sharing, 2. drag refactoring and 3. data visualization.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:31 commits in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Harlan focused on abstracting and refactoring the persistence layer of the wiki application, introducing `Store` classes for file system and CouchDB storage. They implemented core functionalities like retrieving and storing text and binary data. Furthermore, the user contributed to API endpoint development for accessing pages and recent changes, integrating with the underlying storage mechanisms. They also added support for local-first operations and added features for serving remote resources locally.
visualizationsharingrefactoringdata-visualizationwiki
json-ld/json-ld.org
Oct 2016 - Jul 2017
JSON for Linked Data's documentation and playground site
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 4 PRs, 14 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Harlan primarily focused on enhancing the JSON-LD playground's functionality, integrating Bitcoin (ECDSA Koblitz) signature support and streamlining the overall user experience. Their work included the implementation of new UI elements and the integration of the `bitcore-message` library and the `jsonld-signatures` library. This included refactoring existing code and introducing new features related to key management, signing, and verifying JSON-LD documents using Bitcoin keys. The user's contribution expanded the playground to support more signature types.
json-ldapijsonldlinked-datasemantic-web
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