Scott Baker
Founder of Entropa — the culmination of a ten-year vision. It started with a problem I saw from the inside: working in medical records at Ciox Health, I knew chart retrieval was broken — so, on my own, I began building an alternative platform on AWS to do it right and take it to market myself. A decade later, Entropa is that same fight, finished right. A technologist and agentic engineer, I set the direction and own every decision — I orchestrate AI (Claude Opus) to write the post-quantum cryptography and the vault engine, audit every line it produces, and run the system end to end.
Entropa is the culmination of a body of work with one through-line: sovereign, post-quantum systems built in Rust. I build private AI infrastructure, masterless orchestration, and high-performance data engines — each one post-quantum at the core (ML-KEM, ML-DSA, NIST FIPS 203/204). Entropa takes that to its conclusion: a post-quantum records vault, built from the ground up to prove what a database never can.
Selected work
Entropa — the Continuum
- Designed and built Collapse Consensus — an entropy-measured DAG BFT with no vote round; nodes finalize the same order live over encrypted TCP.
- Hand-rolled a pure-Rust SLH-DSA (FIPS 205) validated byte-for-byte against the NIST test vectors; ML-DSA and ML-KEM for signatures and key exchange.
- Built the full node: hardware-entropy beacon, dynamic stake-weighted validator set, Proof of Relay, restart-survival, and trustless catch-up — a fresh node re-derives finality itself, trusting no peer.
RusticAgentic — sovereign AI / RAG
- Built a private, air-gapped legal document-intelligence platform — full RAG pipeline (three-tier PDF/OCR extraction → legal-aware chunking → hybrid HNSW+BM25 retrieval → on-device LLM), zero external API calls, zero data egress.
- Post-quantum vault: AES-256-GCM shards with ML-KEM-768 key encapsulation and an ML-DSA-65-signed, append-only audit chain — every access cryptographically verifiable.
- Full-stack Rust (ra-rag, ra-gateway, ra-vault, ra-crypto, ra-audit, ra-ingest) + Leptos/WASM + GCP sole-tenant A100 — 1.7s average query latency over a 150-document corpus.
skr8tr — sovereign orchestration
- A masterless, Kubernetes-class web orchestrator with a 5 MB control plane — no etcd, no Helm, no YAML, no containers required; deploys native binaries, WASM, and VMs.
- Post-quantum authenticated mesh: every command ML-DSA-65-signed on transmission and verified on receipt; no leader election, no single point of failure. Built in C23.
DuckDataMaster — AI analytics IDE · SaaS on Google Cloud
- A DuckDB-powered AI analytics IDE delivered as a SaaS on a dedicated GCP cloud instance per customer (Firebase hosting + Firestore; web frontend, an Electron desktop app, and browser extensions). Upload a file or connect cloud storage, then run ML workflows (e.g. churn prediction) and SQL analytics.
- Its DuckDB engine benchmarked 172 million rows/second on a single machine (167M rows · 971 ms) — 25× faster than Apache Spark at $0 cluster cost. The core value: retire overpriced Spark/Databricks clusters for single-node DuckDB.
- Authored a DuckDB C++ extension implementing post-quantum crypto (ML-KEM-768, ML-DSA-65) callable from SQL via liboqs — the cryptographic groundwork that led to Entropa.
Credentials
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate) — verify ↗
- Databricks Certified Associate Developer for Apache Spark — Scala track — verify ↗
- Former information-security analyst — HIPAA compliance & HITRUST audit remediation
