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Jason (koad) Zvaniga

kingofalldata.com/whoami

Welcome, traveler.

I build sovereign apps that run locally, talk across the internet
via encrypted hole-punches, and never send data into the cloud.

📖 Have you read my book? -- kingofalldata.com
📖 Looking for my Curriculum Vitae? -- kingofalldata.com/curriculum-vitae

Summary

I am a system architect, developer, and long-time IT concierge with a 25-year journey in sovereign computing, automation, and identity-aware tooling. I create software that respects context, enables autonomy, and documents itself. My philosophy of "data" follows GTD (Getting Things Done) by David Allen, everything is data, not just what's in a computer. Every input, signal, or project is a datum waiting for clarity and structure.

I design systems that are local-first, cryptographically verifiable, human-readable, and future-resilient.

Timeline

1999, Praxis Training Institute, Ottawa

Graduated from Praxis, where I studied software development. Learned Bash, C, C++, Perl, and MFC in a fast-paced, hands-on environment. This was my springboard into automation, tooling, and systems thinking.

1999-2001, Polycon (Guelph, ON)

Originally joined as an unpaid intern to complete school hours, was handed a backlog of engineering IT requests. Completed the entire list in under two weeks (many items had been stagnant for months). This led to internal conflict between departments, and a full-time paid offer with retroactive pay.

Role: Junior Systems Tech (Unofficial title) Tools: Oracle DB, Excel macros, Windows reporting systems Contributions: Created a number of Excel-based dashboards and automated engineering reports. Much of my work became the standard for reporting in the department.

2001-present, Hardwired Solutions → GigaGeek Industries

After leaving corporate, I returned to help manage operations at a family business (gravel pit) and began offering IT concierge services under my own brand.

Early services:

  • Network installation, premise wiring
  • Hardware setup and troubleshooting
  • Software tooling and automation
  • Subcontracting with wiring companies while building my own client base

Evolution: Within 6 years, shifted focus from wiring to software:

  • Company websites
  • Business automation tools
  • VoIP / PBX deployments
  • Custom database-driven systems

2014, Birth of koad:io

Frustrated with complexity in shipping software tools to clients, I created koad:io, a Bash-based context agent framework. Agents live in folders and respond to context-aware commands like:

cd my-new-automation && alice start

Here, alice is the context agent, and the folder is the working context. Each agent encapsulates logic, tools, scripts, and presentation for a specific domain.

2014, Discovery of Blockchain

The decentralization model inspired a deeper idea: sovereign tooling that doesn’t rely on hosted backends. Blockchain became the perfect persistence layer, a way to store state without cloud infrastructure.

2015-2018, Community Coin / Canada eCoin (CDN)

Joined the local blockchain community. CDN became my testbed and "home chain." We had near-daily meetings exploring ideals, governance, and tech.

2018, eCoinCore Initiative

Created ecoincore, a blockchain installation and management tool. It’s a sovereign installer and WebSocket/API stack (built with Meteor) that can:

  • Install many blockchains
  • Launch SPV servers and block explorers
  • Track pricing data from 3rd parties or exchanges
  • Serve both enterprise (e.g., grocery store w/ 20 registers) and personal users who want local blockchain queries (not trusting 3rd parties to tell them their balance)

ecoincore itself is a koad:io agent.

2015-present, Keybase

Keybase became central to my work and team collaboration. I’ve used it since ~2015 for encrypted chat, team git, PGP proofs, and device-level identity.

koad on Keybase: keybase/koad

2023-2025, Beatify Group Inc

Beatify is an attribution-aware meta-media platform. I joined after seeing the disconnect between their lofty goals and early implementation.

What I did:

  • Designed a high-level system architecture
  • Proposed using PGP sigchains (a la Keybase) to extend artist identity with proofs across social/web/blockchains
  • Created a prototype where humans become digitally addressable, enabling artist-verified attribution with cryptographic roots
  • Built a full MVP user interface (meteor)

koad on Beatify: beatify/koad

Documentation & Philosophy

I maintain my own documentation system at kingofalldata.com, built with MkDocs. It serves as my:

  • Personal knowledge base
  • Agent training and guardrails
  • Blog of insights and ideas
  • Cheatsheet archive

I write because I forget.
I automate because I get bored.
I document because I care about resilience.

"Don't make people follow instructions, make instructions irrelevant."
koad