** Design Engineer Β· UX Engineer Β· Rust & Soroban Developer Β· Open Source Maintainer**
Building trustworthy digital infrastructure that expands access and creates opportunities for people.
I'm a multidisciplinary builder working at the intersection of product design, engineering, AI, and blockchain infrastructure.
I don't treat design and engineering as separate disciplines. I take ideas from research to production β understanding the problem, validating the solution, designing the experience, building the system, documenting the process, and growing communities around the work.
My focus is on building technology that is fair, transparent, and accessible β infrastructure that people can actually trust.
- ποΈ Founder of Access-Foundry β open-source developer infrastructure for the Stellar ecosystem
- π¬ Currently building LineProof β a Soroban-powered protocol for provably fair waiting lists
- π± Deep in Rust, Soroban smart contracts, and distributed systems
- π¨ I design with empathy and build with intention
- π I believe documentation is part of the product, not an afterthought
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A protocol for transparent, auditable, and non-transferable waiting lists built on Stellar and Soroban. Fairness infrastructure for the decentralized web β because how you get in line matters. |
An open-source organization creating developer tooling and infrastructure for the Stellar ecosystem. Built by and for developers who believe open systems should be easy to build on. |
Fair Systems β Blockchain infrastructure built on verifiability, not trust
Developer Experience β APIs and tools that feel obvious, not clever
Digital Identity β Self-sovereign identity that people actually control
Distributed Systems β Resilient, transparent, decentralized infrastructure
Accessible Design β Interfaces that work for everyone, not just the average user
AI-assisted Products β Human-centered AI that augments, not replaces, good judgment
A Soroban smart contract protocol that makes queuing transparent, auditable, and non-transferable. Because fair access starts at the infrastructure layer. Stack: Rust Β· Soroban Β· Stellar Β· TypeScript |
An organization-level initiative building developer-first tooling, documentation, and SDKs for Stellar developers. Open contribution. Open process. Stack: Rust Β· TypeScript Β· Soroban Β· GitHub Actions |
"Understand the problem before you design the solution. Design the solution before you write a line of code. Write code that someone else can trust."
| Principle | What it means in practice |
|---|---|
| Understand before building | Research, interviews, and real problem validation before any design or code |
| Design is not decoration | Every design decision is a product decision |
| Code is communication | Write for the next person who reads it, not just the machine that runs it |
| Documentation is part of the product | A feature no one understands is a feature that doesn't exist |
| Open source is a philosophy | Build in public. Learn in public. Give back. |
| Accessibility is not optional | If it doesn't work for everyone, it's not finished |
let current_focus = vec![
"Advanced Rust β ownership, lifetimes, async patterns",
"Soroban β smart contract architecture on Stellar",
"Distributed Systems β consensus, state machines, fault tolerance",
"AI-assisted Development β practical tooling and workflows",
"Product Strategy β from 0 to 1, and from 1 to scale",
];- π¨ I wireframe before I write a single function β always
- βοΈ I got into blockchain because I care about fairness, not speculation
- π I think about documentation the same way I think about UX β it should feel effortless
- π I'm building open-source tools for ecosystems that are still finding their footing
- π I ask "why does this feel broken?" before I ask "how do we fix it?"
- π οΈ My favorite moment in any project is when the design and the code finally tell the same story
I'm always open to conversations about product design, Stellar/Soroban development, open source, or building fair digital systems.
If my open-source work has been useful to you, consider sponsoring it. Every contribution helps keep Access-Foundry and LineProof moving forward.
"The best systems don't just work β they can be understood, questioned, and improved by the people who depend on them."
β Deejah
Designed with intention. Built with care. Shipped for people. β Hasanah Babalola