I build a universe from scattered parts.

I’m Joe — a self-taught systems engineer out of the Houston area and the founder of Scattered-Systems. I fell hard for Rust and never looked back: most of what I make starts at the foundations — the data structures, the math, the runtime — and works its way up.

Almost everything I make resolves around Scattered-Systems one way or another. Its flagship is eryon — a topological computing system meant to fuse the resources of any number of registered devices into one virtual universe — and the pieces in its orbit (hypergraphs, a machine-learning crate, a Turing-machine study, automatic differentiation, an agent framework for programmatic markets) are either steps toward that goal or tools I built to get there.

I think best across disciplines: distributed systems and decentralization, machine learning, and the pure mathematics under all of it (I keep a music-theory crate around for when I miss making things for their own sake). pzzld is my namespace — where the scattered pieces get published and shown fitting together.