Damon is CTO of Rethunk.Tech, LLC. and leads the Rethunk.AI product line. He is the principal architect of Bastion: a command-and-control style framework for governing AI agent fleets across hosts.
He designed IRONLAW—seven immutable rules (Rightful Authority, Operational Consent, Non-Improvisation, Least Authority, Accountability, Within RoE, Intentional Human Impact). The doctrine is plain: authentication is not permission, trust is not consent, and disconnection must not enlarge scope.
Bastion spans TypeScript and Node on the server and web, Go at the edge where applicable, gRPC and Protobuf, optional directive signing, managed PKI with mutual TLS, and the IRONLAW file policy gate on ingest, reconcile, and replay—plus edge enforcement primitives documented in the Bastion meta-repo.
Before Bastion he worked across systems design, platform engineering, and open source, with deep use of Go and TypeScript. He publishes MCP and developer tooling under Rethunk-Tech and Rethunk-AI because governance shows up wherever LLMs touch real infrastructure.
He is also legally blind. That is part of the same engineering habit: when evidence is insufficient, hold; when tooling is inadequate, build better tooling.