Interoperating Is Not the Same as Being Right
Interop events tend to look alike. Implementations built by different organizations get paired off, presentations go back and forth, verification succeeds, and a green mark goes into the cell. The mor
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A Year Later, in Singapore: Reflecting on IATA WDS 2026
Last September and November, I flew to Montreal and Geneva for the IATA Data & Tech PoC Workshop. We had a vision, a roadmap, and the belief that wallet-based digital identity could genuinely change h
Stop Building, Start Solving
In a startup, your most finite resource isn't money, it's time. And nothing wastes it faster than spending days building something that was never going to solve the actual problem. There's a trap that
A Few Months in Luxembourg: EUDI, Interoperability, and Everything In Between
I spent the last few months based in Luxembourg, and it turned out to be one of the more formative stretches of my career so far. The main reason I was there was work, specifically, deep focus time on
2025: A Year in Review
What a year. Looking back, 2025 was packed — sometimes overwhelming, but always moving forward. Conferences, Workshops, and Global Connections I lost count of how many events I attended and presented at this year: IIW, EUDI Launchpad, FUNKE, UNFOLD,...
Open Source Summit Korea 2025 — What I Learned
On November 4th and 5th, I attended Open Source Summit Korea in Seoul. Hosted by the Linux Foundation, this event held special meaning for me. I'm a maintainer of SD-JWT-js under the OpenWallet Foundation, which is part of the Linux Foundation. Wher...
Why "Perfect Code" Destroys Teams: The Coder's Trap
Many developers have a fundamental misconception: that making code perfect at this very moment is the ultimate goal. Like taking a photograph, they optimize, abstract, and apply every best practice to make their current code "beautiful." But reality ...