Work History

Created an open-source protocol for developers to identify AI agents, control delegated permissions and audit every action through signed records.

• Framed APS around three problems, identify the agent, bound its authority and prove each action, and mapped each to OAuth 2.0 token exchange (RFC 8693)
• Shipped TypeScript, Python and Go SDKs, a Rust verifier, an MCP server (150+ tools), gateway, registry and cross-language conformance suite
• Separated the open protocol from the enforcement gateway so teams can adopt it without deploying the gateway, then open-sourced the gateway after a full-history secret scan
• Implemented issuance, key rotation, revocation and a Merkle-committed receipt ledger with Ed25519 inclusion proofs and offline verification
• Built an OAuth ID-JAG adapter mapping external IdP assertions onto scoped, revocable agent delegations
• Coordinated a security release across 5 packages in 4 languages, from advisory and remediation to simultaneous patched releases
• Defined action_ref, a deterministic identifier for agent actions, now implemented five times across three organizations and specified in an IETF draft written by another author
• Reached 45,000+ npm downloads across the SDK and MCP server with no paid acquisition
• Landed 50 merged pull requests in 23 external projects, including Microsoft's Agent Governance Toolkit, AAIF goose, OpenClaw and OWASP
• Authored the IETF Internet-Draft draft-pidlisnyi-aps and maintain Agent Authority Conformance, an approved Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust lab

My attempt at artificial creative intelligence (ACI), an AI platform that creates and distributes social media content across LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube. You talk, the system turns it into content, and agents handle the rest.

• Bootstrapped the product from concept to 300+ users and 1.6M monthly impressions in 16 weeks
• Owned the roadmap and day-to-day prioritization for an 8-person team building agentic workflows, tool orchestration and evaluation loops
• Built Eva, an in-product AI agent harness for conversational research, content creation and tool execution
• Built a multimodal generation layer with Runware, routing image and video models through one API
• Rebuilt onboarding after 50+ interviews and funnel analysis, improving activation by about 30%
• Reduced manual operations by 60% through AI automation across support, billing, accounting and internal workflows
• Defined OAuth scopes and data access and retention requirements, and led app reviews across Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn and YouTube
• Shipped Flutter mobile apps to the Apple App Store and Google Play, working across Flutter/Dart, Java/Spring Boot, PostgreSQL and MongoDB

Built pet care brand from scratch for celebrity founders Stella Maxwell and Barbara Palvin. Full operational ownership from product development to multi-channel sales.

• Built brand identity, product line, and e-commerce platform from zero to launch
• Developed multi-channel sales strategy: DTC, retail partnerships (Petco, local boutiques), and wholesale
• Established supply chain and fulfillment operations supporting rapid growth trajectory
• Launched to market in 6 months with celebrity founder backing and press coverage

Scaled a DTC jewelry brand to $3M annual revenue and 100K+ orders, earning the Shopify 100K Orders award. Full-funnel ownership across product, marketing, and operations.

• Tripled revenue in 24 months via full-funnel strategy across DTC and wholesale, reaching a 40%+ repeat purchase rate
• Oversaw product lifecycle from concept to launch, driving trend-informed development and rapid iteration
• Secured $300K Meta-funded campaign (2.8x ROAS), generating $840K in attributed revenue
• Designed outbound and retention systems, acquiring 160+ wholesale accounts and expanding B2B distribution
• Led CX, paid media and lifecycle marketing, achieving 43% ROI on SMS and 28% on email campaigns
• Established East Asian fulfillment hub, reducing shipping costs by 95%

Built GTM systems and sales automation for a PR tech agency serving VC-backed startups. Revenue grew 20x.

• Grew revenue from $100K to $2M and expanded client base from 11 to 87 within one year
• Built CRM, outbound and automation systems, plus the GTM narrative and sales playbooks
• Trained team to execute at scale with repeatable processes

Launched eco CPG brand amid global plastic bans, building on cellulose acetate, the material McDonald's switched to for its straws in 2025.

• Raised $150K pre-seed, built Ukraine-based manufacturing and secured commercial contracts
• Led product development, certification, supply chain and GTM strategy, scaling to $120K/month
• Led R&D, regulatory compliance (FDA, EU), and pilot program execution with major QSR chain

Led GTM strategy and public sector outreach for a veteran-owned medical distributor during COVID-19 and the fentanyl crisis.

• Advanced a $159M NY State COVID-testing opportunity through stakeholder mapping and public-sector outreach
• Devised bipartisan GTM frameworks aligned with zero-tolerance and harm-reduction policy models
• Led stakeholder mapping and relationship building with government decision-makers

Led growth strategy and product development at a sustainable products startup.

• Invented and commercialized a new product format, turning raw reed into a scalable, manufacturable straw
• Secured and managed 2,000+ global B2B accounts, including Hilton, Hyatt, Marriott and Sysco
• Generated $4M+ in sales through strategic account management
• Doubled monthly revenue for five consecutive months through outbound sales, channel strategy and enterprise partnerships

Rebuilt GTM systems, activated new segments and drove pivotal traction for food-tech startup, enabling $5M Series A funding. Company later acquired by SoundHound AI.

• Joined with no sales experience and became top performer, promoted to VP in 8 months
• Boosted monthly partnerships by 600% (30 to 200) and led a team of 7 direct reports plus 2 team leads
• Developed empathy-based outbound funnel that drove 95% open and 75% conversion rates
• Designed cross-team retention playbook that cut churn 90% and unlocked multi-location deals
• Built the corporate segment and closed national chains including BJ's Restaurants, scaling from 300 to 3,400+ locations across 14 cities

• AAIF goose: PreToolUseResult, stable tool_call_id propagation and fail-closed pre-tool hooks
• OpenClaw: four fixes across subagent completion, session routing, service state and config recovery
• Microsoft Agent Governance Toolkit: three PRs for authorization gates, reputation-gated authority and governed attestations, merged by a Microsoft maintainer
• AgenTrust TRACE: verification for policy decisions, delegation chains, revocation and action receipts
• Bernstein: delegation grading, conformance vectors and per-agent receipts anchored to a run root
• OWASP Agentic Skills Top 10: the denied-before-dispatch example vector, merged by the project leader
• Verdict: a delegation-confusion attack pack for testing agent authorization

• Agent Governance Vocabulary, a shared interoperability registry where other projects map their own systems. 132 merged PRs, 69 of them from 30 outside contributors
• Agent Authority Conformance, an approved Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust lab for testing agent authority across implementations
• action_ref, now carried by an IETF draft written by another author (draft-etcheverry-action-ref) and implemented from the specification alone by an independent developer, with matching bytes
• OpenChain conformance: APS self-certified to ISO/IEC 5230 and ISO/IEC 18974, with the checklists published alongside the source

• Author of the IETF Internet-Draft draft-pidlisnyi-aps, cited by other Internet-Drafts and named in the Contributors section of draft-mih-sokolov-scitt-payload-binding
• Reviewer and contributor, OWASP Agentic Skills Top 10 v1.0
• Co-lead of the RFC-189 conformance cases in OASIS CoSAI Workstream 4
• Participant in OpenID AuthZEN, OpenTelemetry GenAI semantic conventions, the W3C AI Agent Protocol Community Group and the Decentralized Identity Foundation
• Nine papers on agent authorization and governance, each with a DOI, cited in independent research and press

Mediated business disputes, managed communications during corporate transitions and bank seizures.

Organized UNICEF, USAID, and ICRC conferences and major entertainment events with teams of 20+ staff.

Assisted in directing music videos and live productions. My first storytelling experience.