Chris Daley
AI systems · agent experience · sovereign infrastructure — Winlock, Washington
Experience
- 2025 —Director of EngineeringFeanix
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.
- 2014 — 2026DirectorCascadia Technical Mentorship
Technical mentorship and consultancy: security assessments, training, and confidential technical projects for clients who needed both engineering and discretion.
- 2024 — 2025Principal EngineerBudabit
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.
- 2013 — 2014Regional Security ManagerGreenpeace Southeast Asia
Development and implementation of security plans for campaigns in high-risk areas across Southeast Asia, based in Jakarta.
- 2012Action Coordinator & ActivistFreelance
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.
- 2011 — 2012Rivers CampaignerThe Wilderness Society Australia
Campaigning for river protection and restoration in New South Wales, including the Murray-Darling Basin.
- 2010Logistics Manager / CoordinatorMédecins 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.
- 2006 — 2009International Actions & Logistics ManagerGreenpeace 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.
- 2006Logistics ManagerOxfam
Emergency relief logistics in the earthquake-affected North West Frontier Province of Pakistan, supporting water and sanitation projects across a broad area.
Selected writing
- 2026Agent experienceNotebook (draft)
- 2026Context is infrastructureNotebook (draft)
- 2026Nostr as an engineering substrateNotebook
- 2026The sovereign engineerNotebook (draft)
Sovereign infrastructure · Nostr · agent fleets · holistic security · field logistics
Go · C · TypeScript
Advisory · security work · speaking · collaborations