VerifyU™

VerifyU started from a single observation: academic verification is one of the slowest, most fragmented, and most trust-deficient processes in higher education. A transcript can take weeks to chase, a degree can be faked in an afternoon, and the institutions caught in the middle have no clean way to vouch for their own students. I set out to fix that by building the layer that sits between schools, students, and employers and makes the answer instant by default.

I owned product, architecture, and go-to-market end-to-end. The IP foundation traced back to a litigation-grade patent I co-authored years earlier; on top of that I designed the credential issuance and verification flows, recruited a six-engineer team through ASU's Luminosity Lab to ship the MVP, and personally walked the platform into registrar offices, provost suites, and credentialing bodies until cold conversations became long-term design partnerships spanning the country.

VerifyU's traction is what put it in front of Datavault AI. The platform was rolled into their Web 3.0 product suite, where I continued to lead its technical sales motion until April 2026. It's the rare case of a founder getting to follow their own product all the way through acquisition and into the public markets.