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Jason (koad) Zvaniga

aka: King of All Data

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.

đź“– Have you read my book? -- kingofalldata.com
đź“– 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-present, Beatify (Pre-funded Startup)

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

Future: Working on a consensus engine that will serve as the backbone for artist attribution.

Beatify uses Keybase for consensus and is expanding into WebRTC, enabling voice, video, and screenshare between users.

The Beatify Museum

Beatify will also function as a legacy business by offering long-term metadata storage via a consensus-aware IPFS pin manager, a “museum” for large data that blockchains can’t hold.

Context-Aware Agents & MCP

koad:io agents have their own PGP keys and are addressable inside Beatify. Recently, as AI and context-driven tooling rise in relevance, I'm working to make koad:io agents MCP-aware (Model Context Protocol). The goal is to enhance agent behavior with LLMs and based on environmental state.

Documentation & Philosophy

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

  • Personal knowledge base
  • Resume / Curriculum Vitae
  • 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.

Skills

  • Languages: JavaScript (Web, Electron, Node, Browser Extn), bash
  • Systems: Linux, Meteor, Electrum, IPFS
  • Concepts: Blockchain, PGP, Identity, Automation, Contextual Agents, Attribution
  • Values: Sovereignty, Simplicity, Readability, Portability, Proof

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