Career Timeline

38 years of building — from military service to Fortune 100 architecture to AI innovation

AI R&D Lab (2025–present)
PayPal (12 years)
Charles Schwab (14 years)
Internet
Telecom
Manufacturing / Aerospace
Military
now

Founder & Principal Architect — AI Systems R&D

Barth AI & Intelligence Systems LLC (IoT Lodge Lab)2025 – Present

Founded an independent AI systems R&D lab and built Orreth — a constitutional layer for long-lived AI institutions: durable agent identity, governed signed memory, attenuating authority, epoch-named machine states, and independently witnessed consequences. Designed, built, and proven solo over one year, with every architecture decision human-locked on the public record.

Key Impact

  • Orreth: 335 conformance tests across a Python reference and Rust plane held to byte-level cryptographic parity
  • 58 design dives — identity, memory metabolism, governance cascade, epochs, witnessed deeds, the firmware razor — all on the record
  • Live public demonstration (demo.orreth.ai): a running universe of 6 ecosystems, 12 fields, ~35 governed agents on one machine
  • First witnessed 'deed' proven on the open web: a published artifact that caught its own tampering by hash and was restored through a human gate
  • CortexObserver: the multi-agent field pattern (commander, roster, farms, local governance) whose lessons Orreth institutionalized
  • Published technical series on agentic memory, governance, and retrieval — LinkedIn + jsbarth.com, both homes

Technologies

Rust
Python
Ed25519/DIDs
PostgreSQL
pgvector
Docker
AWS CDK
Claude/LLM Ops
MCP
'20

Director / Principal Architect — Technology & Security Oversight

PayPal2020 – 2025
'17

Head of Security Quality Assurance

PayPal2017 – 2020
'14

Director — Enterprise IAM & Security Engineering

PayPal2014 – 2017
'13

Payments Monitoring & Observability Architect

PayPal2013 – 2014
'11

Director — Distributed & Mainframe Monitoring Platforms

Charles Schwab2011 – 2013
'10

Chief Architect — Ad Serving

Yahoo!2010 – 2010
'99

Availability Director & Solutions Architect

Charles Schwab1999 – 2010
'98

Systems Architect / IT Manager

Ameritec Cellular1998 – 1999
'96

Design Engineer — Progressive & Compound Dies (Tool & Die)

Seastroms Manufacturing1996 – 1998
'94

Machinist & Engineer — Mold Injection

Spears Manufacturing1994 – 1996
'92

Machinist Mill Operator

ERI Labs1992 – 1994
'88

Military Police

U.S. Army1988 – 1991
38+

Years of Experience

8

Companies

3

Patents Granted

6

Industry Domains