Jessie Santiago

@JessieBroke

Work

Now

I’m a solo founder. At OMW Ventures, a software company in Sugar Hill, Georgia, I’m building BasedmintFitness: modern software for gyms and their members. It launched in November 2026 at Georgia Fitness Sugar Hill, where 120 members have signed up. I wrote all of it myself, with Claude as my pair programmer. I’m also studying where coding agents break in BoundaryBench.

Open to remote contract work that fits my background: program and project management for protocol and infrastructure teams, and building products with AI. Get in touch.

What I’m learning about:

  • Replacing legacy gym software with tools members actually want to open
  • AI control: keeping increasingly autonomous agents useful while their actions stay within enforceable boundaries
  • Adversarial robustness and frontier-model evaluation
  • Running my own infrastructure: Proxmox VMs, Docker, a self-hosted Git server, and CI runners for my own apps
  • Networking across a homelab: a Tailscale mesh tying 20-plus machines together, UniFi, DNS, and SSH hardening
  • Network security basics: segmentation, monitoring, and a Kali box for testing my own setup
  • Running AI locally: LLM inference and image models on my own GPU, CUDA under WSL
  • Zero-knowledge proof basics, working through The MoonMath Manual: finite fields, elliptic curves, and SNARKs
  • Polynomial commitments: implementing KZG to understand how data availability proofs work
  • Merkle trees and storage proofs, the building blocks behind Codex and Archivist
  • Systems programming in Nim and Rust, the languages behind Codex and the Archivist client

Projects: BasedmintFitness · BoundaryBench · Durability Labs · Archivist · Codex and Logos · The Bitcoin Podcast Network

Timeline

Newest first.

2026

  • Launched BasedmintFitness (November) at Georgia Fitness Sugar Hill, where 120 members have signed up. It covers QR check-in, workout logging, class booking, and equipment reporting. basedmint.org
  • Started BoundaryBench (November), an empirical AI safety study of whether tool gateways and LLM monitors keep autonomous coding agents inside their trust boundaries.
  • Left the COO role at Durability Labs (July) and started building BasedmintFitness full time. I wrote all of it myself, with Claude as my pair programmer.

2025

  • Co-founded Durability Labs (July) with Mark Spanbroek and Dmitriy Ryajov and served as COO. Our first project was Archivist, a peer-to-peer, incentive-based decentralized storage protocol. I turned research and protocol architecture into pilot plans, client workflows, and engineering milestones, and directed delivery of the cross-platform Archivist desktop client (Tauri/Rust, React/TypeScript, and a Nim node sidecar).
  • Left IFT (June) after four years running operations for Codex. My two roles, Logos Program Manager and Codex Project Manager, had merged into Technical Program Manager for Codex.

2022

  • Joined Hashing It Out as a co-host (August) with Corey and Dee, starting with Hardware infrastructure Pt. 1. I came in after the original hosts moved on and Corey stayed. Hashing It Out shares ownership with The Bitcoin Podcast but remains its own show: founders come on and go deep on what they’ve built.
  • Dad DAO (February): a learning community and incubator on Algorand, with Michael “The Trosen One” Trosen and Demetrick “Fergulati” Ferguson. We built NFTs on ARC-69 and the ARC-333 governance standard, but never launched.

2021

  • Founded OMW Ventures (November), the company behind BasedmintFitness.
  • Sat for the MCAT (October) and scored a 506, after self-studying from May 2020.
  • Switched from Nomos to Codex (around July). Codex, then called Dagger and now Logos Storage, is a decentralized storage protocol with strong data durability guarantees. I joined as the sixth team member and served as Codex Project Manager while it grew to 22 people.
  • Became the first Logos Program Manager (April), starting on Nomos, as a self-employed contractor for the Institute of Free Technology. I reported to Corey Petty. Logos was built around a “holy trinity” of startups: Nomos (private execution and consensus), Waku (private messaging), and Codex (private decentralized storage). The program later became part of IFT. More on Codex and Logos

2020

  • Became a part-owner of The Bitcoin Podcast Network.
  • Finished pre-med prerequisites at Georgia Gwinnett College (May), which I started in July 2019.

2019

  • Just the Headers wrapped (October) after episode #72.

2018

  • Started co-hosting on The Bitcoin Podcast Network (April) with Just the Headers #1, a weekly crypto headline show with Dee (Demetrick Ferguson). The Bitcoin Podcast, established in 2015, is one of the oldest crypto podcasts.
  • Hashing It Out launched on the network (April).

2015 to 2016

2013

  • Research Assistant at Clemson University (August 2013 to May 2015): robotics research on variable-stiffness continuum robots for space inspection, under Dr. Ian Walker. His NASA funding paid for the lab’s R&D and my research assistantship.
  • BS in Electrical Engineering from Clemson University (May 2013).

2009

  • Started my BS in Electrical Engineering at Clemson University.
  • IT Specialist at Beaufort County Schools (June 2009 to August 2009).

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