# Patrick Colm Audley — Curriculum Vitae *Hacker · Full-Spectrum Technologist · Polymath* Spruce Grove, AB · · +1 (780) 670-0484 · · ORCID [0000-0003-4382-7625](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4382-7625) --- ## Summary My career is, in essence, a single sentence: **I translate the impossible to the real.** The pattern repeats across thirty years of consulting via [Blackcat Informatics](https://blackcatinformatics.ca/) — fractional **CTO**, **researcher**, and **architect** engagements where the brief is the same: turn around the technical-team situation that everyone else has written off as unfixable; rescue the pre-launch data problem the in-house team has run out of ideas on; find signal in noise that prior teams have given up trying to extract. The solutions are usually unconventional, and they usually work. Scope spans regulated capital markets, geospatial intelligence, fintech, security, bioinformatics, and high-performance computing. I have certified financial filings as a CFO of a Canadian reporting issuer, raised institutional capital as a founder, operated petabyte-class data systems, and shipped to governments, public-market portfolios, and enterprise buyers. Currently focused on AI-agent governance ([coding-ethos](https://github.com/paudley/coding-ethos)) and emergent knowledge-graph research from high-order semantic spaces ([nonlinear-semantic-graphs](https://github.com/paudley/nonlinear-semantic-graphs)). ## Selected Outcomes - **Certified financial filings as CFO** of a Canadian reporting issuer; bridged regulated capital markets with cryptocurrency tokenisation (ABT Capital Markets, 2018–2024). - **Founded a UK security startup; raised £1.2 M** and contributed to a portfolio of 12+ adaptive-authentication patents (Cogneto, 2006–2007). - **Operated a 30 TB PostGIS geospatial pipeline** running near-real-time wildfire detection on heterogeneous satellite feeds; served multiple governments and commercial customers (Tanka Technologies, 2017–2022). - **Lead architect on a national PKI buildout** for a CLEC: 2,000+ systems, 1,000+ networks, 16 cities; led data-forensic investigations as a CSIRT member (GT Group Telecom, 1997–2001). - **Built a 100-processor research cluster** with custom PXE / imaging and Sun Grid Engine for the University of Dundee School of Life Sciences (2002–2004). - **30+ year Vancouver / Alberta startup-community veteran**; 25+ launches as a fractional executive via Blackcat Informatics; deep network across founders, funders, and operators (1994–present). - **Co-author of OXBench** (BMC Bioinformatics 2003), a foundational benchmark for protein multiple-sequence alignment that has guided the field for two decades. ## Experience ### Blackcat Informatics® Inc. · 1994–present **Founder & Principal Management Consultant** · *Management Consulting · Fractional CTO* High-end IT and management consulting for the Vancouver and Alberta startup communities. Domain expertise across high-performance and cloud computing, military-grade security, carrier-grade networking, blockchain, bioinformatics, machine learning, satellite imaging, and cryptology. - CTO-at-large engagements: high-level management, executive oversight, hands-on execution. - Solution architecture for complex technical problems — sparse-resource design and future-proofing. - Cloud navigation: clusters, grids, lambdas, microservices; devops automation across providers. - Startup process and execution from idea through early-stage funding. ### Axes · 2025–present **Lead Researcher** · *AI · data intelligence* ### FydoDx (Biocode AI) · 2023–present **Fractional CTO** · *Veterinary AI · clinical-workflow automation* Fractional CTO for an AI-powered veterinary platform — real-time transcription, automated SOAP notes, dosage verification, and multilingual clinical records across 80+ languages. - Technology roadmap and architecture for AI-driven clinical documentation. - Hiring strategy, developer mentorship, and engineering process foundations. - AI/ML pipeline direction — model selection, fine-tuning strategy, integration patterns. - Security posture, compliance framework, and risk management for health-adjacent data. ### ABT Capital Markets Inc. · 2018–2024 **President, COO & CFO** · *Fintech · regulated capital markets · tokenisation* FinTech firm developing a compliant blockchain platform for tokenisation of Private Equity, Venture Capital, Real Estate, and other alternative assets. Asset Backed Tokens™ enable retail access to traditionally institutional markets. - Operated a Canadian reporting issuer for several years; certified financial filings as CFO. - Bridged regulated capital markets with the wild west of cryptocurrency. - Performed deal due diligence and led legal vetting. - Authored Solidity contracts and worked across multi-blockchain solutions. ### Tanka Technologies Inc. · 2017–2022 **CTO** · *Geospatial intelligence · satellite imagery analysis* Global-scale, high-throughput, real-time geospatial analysis and event-correlation systems — fusing public satellite feeds (GOES-R, MODIS, VIIRS, Himawari) with statistical and ML detection. - Built a worldwide early wildfire-detection pipeline with NRT analysis of heterogeneous satellite feeds. - Delivered data to multiple governments and government agencies plus commercial customers. - Operated a 30 TB PostgreSQL / PostGIS data store and routinely tuned heavy spatial queries. - Collaborated with university research clusters on LiDAR integration and forest-composition analysis. ### Strutta · 2015–2021 **CTO** · *Social marketing · brand engagement platforms* Built social-promotion platforms with a team of social-marketing experts; instrumented and shaped brand engagement at scale. - Ran the dev teams over several product iterations: hiring, team-building, training, direction. - Set the broad technical direction of Strutta and its fleet of related companies. - Operated as senior management inside a public-company structure. ### Mobio Technologies Inc. · 2013–2021 **Managing Director, Technology** · *Cloud platforms · public-market incubator* Owned the technical landscape across the Mobio / LX Ventures portfolio: acquisition due diligence, budget planning, cloud infrastructure, hiring, team management. *Mobio was acquired by LX Ventures, which subsequently rebranded back to Mobio.* - Built a large-scale cloud stack supporting an Alexa top-5000 site (2014). - Led multi-platform deploys across AWS, GCE, and Heroku. - DBA of last resort for the portfolio — fixing the evil problems no one else would. - Executive-team duties for a public-market incubator. ### Cogneto Development Inc. · 2006–2007 **Founder & CTO** · *Cognitive biometrics · adaptive authentication* Founded Cogneto in February 2006; raised £1.2 million; assembled a world-class engineering team and built a tightly-coupled user-centric / high-security software programme. - Contributed to a rich patent portfolio spanning over twelve patents. - Drove the meshing of user-centric design with adversary-aware security engineering. - Touched almost every facet of building a first-rate startup — funding, hiring, IP, GTM. ### University of Dundee · 2002–2004 **High-Performance Computing Manager** · *Computational biology · academic HPC* Specified, provisioned, and operated research-grade computing for the School of Life Sciences. - 20 TB IBM-based SAN with Tivoli Storage Manager — 2 Gbps pure NFS. - New Cisco-based network backbone with NAT and intrusion detection. - 100-processor research cluster on custom PXE / imaging, Sun Grid Engine, and a bespoke deployment package. - Self-discovering monitoring tools that mapped switch topology and surfaced problem areas as the network grew. - Involved in several biological research projects. ### GT Group Telecom · 1997–2001 **Sr. Ecommerce Architect — PKI & Cryptography** · *Competitive Local Telco · founding-team security* Founding-team security and PKI architect for a national CLEC. Designed and supervised construction of two high-security PKI vaults and the surrounding infrastructure. - Coordinated a national audit of GT's networks: 2000+ systems, 1000+ networks, 3 autonomous routing domains, 16 cities. - Key member of GT's Computer Security Incident Response Team; led several data-forensic investigations. - Designed PKI-based applications in Perl, C, C++, and PHP — including the Realtorlink Hybrid Authentication system and Secure Private Internet Messaging (SPIM). - Provided sales-support for PKI and security products. - Responsible for network security across all of Group Telecom's high-security networks. - Responsible for design and implementation of all PKI-centric applications, services, and facilities. - Delivered business assessments for potential partners and clients. ## Earlier Roles - **2026–present** — CTO-Backup & Sr. Developer, Karve Information Technology Ltd. · *Vertical SaaS · field-service platforms* - **2022–2023** — Senior Developer, Ardan Labs · *Go consulting · training & knowledge transfer* - **2022–2022** — Park Board Candidate, TEAM for a Livable Vancouver · *Civic engagement · Vancouver politics* - **2020–2022** — CTO, ESG Analytics · *Impact investing · ESG data* - **2017–2018** — Technical Advisory Board Member, Calyx Bio-Ventures Inc. · *Bio-ventures advisory* - **2015–2015** — Acting CTO (interim), PlaceSpeak Inc. · *Civic tech · location-based consultation* - **2011–2013** — Chief Architect & VP Engineering, Mobio Technologies Inc. · *Lean-startup cloud · payments* - **2011–2011** — Integration Architect, Dominion Enterprises · *Enterprise integration* - **2010–2011** — Sr. Developer, one45 Software · *Medical-education software* - **2008–2010** — VP Technology, Chaordix · *Crowdsourcing platforms* - **2008–2008** — Hacker — Security & Code Uplift, Galaxy Telecom · *VOIP · code-base auditing* - **2004–2006** — Sr. Software Architect, Adzilla New Media · *ICAP · inline web modification* - **1996–1997** — System Administrator / MIS, Axion Internet Inc. · *ISP infrastructure* ## Selected Open-Source Work - **[gmeow](https://github.com/paudley/gmeow)** (Python · AGPL-3.0) — Local Gmail intelligence for agents and automation. Loopback REST + MCP over Gmail, backed by PostgreSQL, semantic search, attachment sidecars, local object storage, and a knowledge graph. Built for trusted single-user local systems rather than hosted mailbox ingestion. - **[gmeow-ontology](https://github.com/Blackcat-Informatics/gmeow-ontology)** (Python · Apache-2.0) — GMEOW — the Global Metadata and Entity Ontology for the Web. A reasoning-centric, OWL 2 DL, upper-ontology-grounded super-vocabulary for digital existence, scientific observation, measurement, location, identity, rights, provenance, contacts and documents. Version 0.1.0 covers 37 modelled, aligned and reasoned modules; projects down to schema.org, FOAF, GeoSPARQL, vCard, iCalendar, OWL-Time, ODRL, SPDX, Dublin Core Terms, OntoLex-Lemon, Web Annotation and related consumer vocabularies; and aligns by reference to Wikidata, PROV-O, ORG, BFO, QUDT, SOSA/SSN, FALDO, IVOA, CIDOC-CRM and more. - **[coding-ethos](https://github.com/paudley/coding-ethos)** (Go · AGPL-3.0) — Policy-as-code enforcement for AI coding agents. MCP server + CEL policies + git hooks + SARIF + static-analysis guardrails so an autonomous agent can't ship code that fails your team's standards. - **[ai-notes](https://github.com/paudley/ai-notes)** (Shell · MIT) — Working notebook for local-model experimentation, ML papers worth tracking, and small reusable bits of inference plumbing. Public so the notes serve as their own changelog. - **[nonlinear-semantic-graphs](https://github.com/paudley/nonlinear-semantic-graphs)** (Python · CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0) — Discovering emergent knowledge-graph relations in high-order semantic vector spaces — manifold learning + spectral analysis applied to LLM embeddings to surface relations that aren't explicit in the source corpus. - **[lru_cache](https://github.com/paudley/lru_cache)** (C++ · GPL-2.0) — Fast, thread-safe Least-Recently-Used cache as a C++ template, with a comprehensive unit-test suite. First written in 2004 and still useful — the kind of small library that just needs to work. ## Publications - [Emergent Knowledge Graphs from High-Order Semantic Spaces](https://github.com/paudley/nonlinear-semantic-graphs) · *Working paper · Blackcat Informatics Inc. (2025)* · 2025-10-01 - **Evaluating Usability and Security with Users of All Ages** · *CHI 2007 — Workshop on Usability and Security* · 2007-04-30 - [OXBench: A benchmark for evaluation of protein multiple sequence alignment accuracy](https://bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2105-4-47) · *BMC Bioinformatics 4:47 (2003)* · 2003-10-10 · doi:[10.1186/1471-2105-4-47](https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-4-47) ## Patents - [Globally Aware Authentication System](https://patents.google.com/patent/US20080222706A1) · US 2008/0222706 A1 · published application; legal status abandoned · 2008-09-11 - [System and method for user polling over a network](https://patents.google.com/patent/US8510385B2) · US 8,510,385 B2 · granted · 2013-08-13 ## Education - **School of Hard Knocks (Internet Edition)** — Young Hacker · 1993–1995 ## Languages English (Native) · French (Professional working proficiency) · Mandarin (Learning) ## Skills & Technologies Software Architecture · Data Science · Spatial Analysis · Machine Learning Security Operations (MLSecOps) · Cloud Computing · Agile Methodologies · Software Development · Databases · Start-ups · Integration · Web Applications · Unix · Linux · E-commerce · Security · Mobile Applications · MySQL · SaaS · Software Design · Subversion · Mobile Devices · Architecture · Amazon Web Services (AWS) · Web Development · Scalability · Apache · Software Engineering · OOP · Product Development · Entrepreneurship · Network Security · Web Services · AJAX · Scrum · Cryptography · LAMP · Android · Managed Services · Data Center · PKI · REST · Program Management · STL Metaprogramming · Security Management · Open Source · Cryptocurrency · Go · Python · C++ · Ruby · JavaScript · Perl · PHP · jQuery · XML --- *Generated 15 June 2026 from ; build 490413b5250bb4e6189057ffc67c9f46c2cf8e8e610b4e83159c29a4ed0d99bc. 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