Patrick Colm Audley Curriculum Vitae Hacker · Full-Spectrum Technologist · Polymath Spruce Grove, AB paudley@blackcat.ca +1 (780) 670-0484 https://patrickaudley.com/ ORCID 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 — 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 and emergent knowledge-graph research from high-order semantic spaces (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. Note: 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------- PurRDF (Rust / Python / WebAssembly / C, MIT OR Apache-2.0) https://github.com/Blackcat-Informatics/purrdf Developed as part of our work on neuro-symbolic engines, PurRDF provides the public, open-source foundations for representing, querying and reasoning over structured knowledge. It is designed to be useful independently of that work. PurRDF brings graph queries, logical reasoning, validation and retrieval into one coherent RDF 1.2 toolkit. Text search, spatial relationships and vector similarity can participate in the same query over the same dataset, without assembling a second database stack. Correctness includes knowing what an answer establishes. Reasoning produces reports of its completeness and limits; governed queries distinguish complete answers from partial results. The same Rust engine runs natively and in WebAssembly, with Python, JavaScript and C interfaces. Logit Loom (Rust, MIT OR Apache-2.0) https://github.com/paudley/logit-loom Rust toolkit for observing, transforming, steering, stopping, resuming, and accounting for token generation. Logit Loom provides backend-neutral contracts for ordered logit transforms, exact-byte token observers, bounded generation controls, content-bound plans and receipts, plus a llama.cpp adapter with identity-bound checkpoints and explicitly scoped steering. gmeow (Python, AGPL-3.0) https://github.com/paudley/gmeow 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 (Rust / Python / RDF 1.2, CC BY 4.0 / AGPL-3.0-only) https://github.com/Blackcat-Informatics/gmeow-ontology GMEOW is our pre-release work on a computational foundation for knowledge and reasoning. It brings logic, language and mathematics into one coherent model, spanning people and organisations, scientific observations, and the beliefs, intentions and interpretations of human and machine agents. The ambition is to reason across those domains while preserving the distinctions that give their information meaning. A measurement, a model output and a human assertion can share a claim structure without becoming interchangeable. Evidence, standpoint, disagreement and revision belong alongside the claim. Reasoning must be equally inspectable: its premises, assumptions and limits belong alongside its conclusions. Grounded agent memory is one application. The broader work asks how knowledge can move between vocabularies, mathematical representations and reasoning systems without silently changing its meaning—and how to establish what each transformation preserves, changes or loses. gmeow-gts (Rust / Python / Go / TypeScript, MIT OR Apache-2.0) https://github.com/Blackcat-Informatics/gmeow-gts GTS packages files with the relationships that give them meaning: where they came from, what was done to them, and which claims or decisions depend on them. The package carries its own history, rather than relying on the system it came from to explain it. New contributions arrive as layers: another analysis, a corrected claim, a higher-resolution original, a signed review. They can be appended without rewriting what came before, combined into larger packages, or delivered progressively as a reader needs them. Hashes and optional signatures let recipients check integrity and attribution. ai-notes (Shell, MIT) https://github.com/paudley/ai-notes 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 (Python, CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0) https://github.com/paudley/nonlinear-semantic-graphs 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 (C++, GPL-2.0) https://github.com/paudley/lru_cache 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 2025-10-01 Working paper · Blackcat Informatics Inc. (2025) https://github.com/paudley/nonlinear-semantic-graphs Evaluating Usability and Security with Users of All Ages 2007-04-30 CHI 2007 — Workshop on Usability and Security OXBench: A benchmark for evaluation of protein multiple sequence alignment accuracy 2003-10-10 BMC Bioinformatics 4:47 (2003) https://bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2105-4-47 doi:10.1186/1471-2105-4-47 ---------------------------------------------------------------- PATENTS ---------------------------------------------------------------- Globally Aware Authentication System US 2008/0222706 A1 (published application; legal status abandoned 2008-09-11) https://patents.google.com/patent/US20080222706A1 System and method for user polling over a network US 8,510,385 B2 (granted 2013-08-13) https://patents.google.com/patent/US8510385B2 ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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, Latent Space Dynamics, Neuro-Symbolism, 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 10 October 2026 from https://patrickaudley.com/ Build 124c377270567de64a91aec955faa3d65ea588838010beb684855f30e92f6877 Also available as: https://patrickaudley.com/cv.html, https://patrickaudley.com/cv.pdf, https://patrickaudley.com/cv.md ----------------------------------------------------------------