§ Curriculum vitae

Chris Daley

AI systems · agent experience · sovereign infrastructure — Winlock, Washington

Experience

  1. 2025 —
    Director of Engineering
    Feanix

    Building an AI-native engineering organization at a biotech applying genomics and AI to global farming. Agents as first-class engineers, humans as their editors.

  2. 2014 — 2026
    Director
    Cascadia Technical Mentorship

    Technical mentorship and consultancy: security assessments, training, and confidential technical projects for clients who needed both engineering and discretion.

  3. 2024 — 2025
    Principal Engineer
    Budabit

    Sovereign infrastructure for engineering organizations: browser-native Git, decentralized CI/CD, cryptographic engineering identity, and autonomous agents — Git, Nostr and agents combined into an open platform to replace centralized developer collaboration.

  4. 2013 — 2014
    Regional Security Manager
    Greenpeace Southeast Asia

    Development and implementation of security plans for campaigns in high-risk areas across Southeast Asia, based in Jakarta.

  5. 2012
    Action Coordinator & Activist
    Freelance

    Actions and coordination for Greenpeace, Rising Tide, South East Forest Rescue and Friends of the Earth in Australia — including the super-trawler blockade at Port Lincoln.

  6. 2011 — 2012
    Rivers Campaigner
    The Wilderness Society Australia

    Campaigning for river protection and restoration in New South Wales, including the Murray-Darling Basin.

  7. 2010
    Logistics Manager / Coordinator
    Médecins Sans Frontières

    Logistics for a measles mass-vaccination campaign in Malawi — seven expatriate logisticians, hundreds of national staff — and an exploratory mission to Papua New Guinea that became a cholera intervention on the Bamu River.

  8. 2006 — 2009
    International Actions & Logistics Manager
    Greenpeace International

    International coordination of ship, land and air operations from Amsterdam; security planning and training, including information security. Previously warehouse and fleet management in Sydney.

  9. 2006
    Logistics Manager
    Oxfam

    Emergency relief logistics in the earthquake-affected North West Frontier Province of Pakistan, supporting water and sanitation projects across a broad area.

Selected writing

  1. 2026Agent experienceNotebook (draft)
  2. 2026Context is infrastructureNotebook (draft)
  3. 2026Nostr as an engineering substrateNotebook
  4. 2026The sovereign engineerNotebook (draft)
Areas

Sovereign infrastructure · Nostr · agent fleets · holistic security · field logistics

Languages

Go · C · TypeScript

Available for

Advisory · security work · speaking · collaborations