My name is Paul. I am 28 years old and I live in San Francisco, California.
Nowadays I'm especially interested in game theory, economics, and computer-facilitated social interaction. I've previously founded a bunch of startups and was an early employee at Dropbox.
I'm well-known among my friends for explaining any concept using the Game of Go.
Past Projects
2011
GammaPay
Mobile Payments
Use your phone to pay anyone, for anything, anywhere.
2010
Deck
Deck shows you the news you care about. Deck was an attempt to productize new algorithms that beat existing information filters by orders of magnitude. I intend to revisit this project.
Tragedy
High-level abstraction layer for the Cassandra Datastore.
Code on Github
2009
SciWave
Working Proof-of-Concept. "Collaborative Mathematica". Written at the Google Wave Campout in collaboration with Jacob Rus.
Portrait by David Newman
Dropbox
Worked on Linux/Mac/Win Desktop Client. Wrote LANSync, which allows clients on a local network to exchange files directly without hitting the network.
Apocaisle
Designed and built the first theme camp for Ephemerisle, the floating festival.
2008
Mjam
Started what is now Austria's largest Internet Food Delivery service. Instead of ranking restaurants by stars, Mjam introduced a Quality Rank. Every Order is a vote. The vote of someone who has previously ordered from the competition counts more. Technology has been licensed and is in use in China and Germany.
2007
DeepSec
YEurope
To support the local startup-scene, I convinced local businessmen to help start Europe's first YCombinator-like accelerator. While the endeavour ultimately didn't work out, at least two startups funded through YEurope are still around: Soup.IO and Efficient Cloud.
2006
Security Talks
Invited Speaker at Blackhat Las Vegas, Blackhat Japan, Bellua CyberSecurity Jakarta, Hack in the Box Kuala Lumpur, InfoSecurity Milan.
Metalab
Metalab is an innovation center/hackerspace in Vienna operated by 160+ paying members. It has inspired the formation of numerous other hackerspaces around the world. Read More
Hackerspaces
Started Hackerspaces.org and promoted the idea of starting hackerspaces. Hundreds of Hackerspaces have been started since.
2005
PyAdv
When I was eight, I started programming so that I could write 2D Adventure Games like Zak McKracken. When I finally wrote a decent engine in 2005, I felt closure, but realized I'd become more excited about stuff other than games. Sorry, eight-year-old-self!
MuxTCP
A userspace python TCP/IP Stack I wrote in 2005 as a basis for developing network security tools.
Link to talkLink to code.
PyPlazes
Before Twitter and Foursquare, there was Plazes. It used WLAN information to locate you. I've written the python client. Source available here.
Future of Networks
Talk about the future of consumer internet usage. Tells the history of human communication from semaphores to social software. German Slides
GPGRemail
Minimalist Mailinglist Manager that GPG reencrypts email for each recipient.
2004
KybKreis
Founded club of local system and game theory thinkers. Published Blog and gathered group that later went on to build Metalab.
Quantum Cryptography
Invented a more efficient and secure Quantum Cryptography Protocol. Defends against attacks published in 2011.
1998
Teso Security
Started one of the most influential security groups of the 90s.
ADM and TESO made almost inappropriately large spashes in the community when they were active. Almost all their exploits were beyond the standard, and at times it seemed they were the ones finding all the new bug-classes.—Dave Aitel, CEO and Founder of Immunity, Inc.