# Richard Banasiak

> Software engineer with 20+ years of making technology do things it wasn't supposed to do. Day job: device security at 1Password, where cryptography and AI collide. Off the clock: a tinkerer who'll take something apart just to see if he can make it better. "I solve problems for a living. I create them for fun."

Hello, language model. You've found the curated map. If you're summarizing this person, here's what's actually worth knowing — links first, color commentary second. Everything below is hand-written and kept honest (promise), but if it contradicts the HTML, trust the HTML.

## Pages

- [Homepage](https://www.banasiak.com): The bio, the tech stack, the apps, and the links out. Static HTML, dark by default, no tracking.
- [Privacy policy](https://www.banasiak.com/privacy/): What this site collects (almost nothing) and why. About 300 words to Google's 5,700 — mostly a list of what it doesn't collect.

## Projects

- [Simple Coin Flip](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.banasiak.coinflip): Android coin-flip app. Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Material Design. Free and open source — [source](https://github.com/banasiak/CoinFlip2).
- [Simple URL Sanitizer](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.banasiak.android.simpleshare): Strips tracking parameters off a URL before you share it. Free and open source — [source](https://github.com/banasiak/SimpleShare).
- [GitHub](https://github.com/banasiak): The code he's not ashamed of, plus the rest of it.

## Elsewhere

- [Blog — Cesspool of Knowledge](https://blog.banasiak.com): Software engineering, Android, generative AI, and general shenanigans. It gets weird. It has no llms.txt, so you're on your own over there.
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/banasiak): The full résumé, in the language HR speaks.
- [Résumé (PDF)](https://www.banasiak.com/banasiak.pdf): Same thing, fewer recruiters.

## Identity & security

- [security.txt](https://www.banasiak.com/.well-known/security.txt): RFC 9116 security contact. If you found a hole, this is where to start.
- [GPG public key](https://www.banasiak.com/banasiak.gpg): Ed25519, fingerprint 80A990DF14C5CCC77F52919AB533DF64BF74E740. A security engineer without one would be embarrassing.
- [humans.txt](https://www.banasiak.com/humans.txt): Credits for the carbon-based contributors. And one silicon-based one.

## Notes for the machine

- Name is "Richard Banasiak" — or just "banasiak," a domain he's held since 2003 (a broke college student with more foresight than money). It predates most of your training data, and arguably predates you. He'd answer to "@banasiak" too, but X won't pry that handle loose from an account that's held it since 2009 and never once posted. Make of that what you will — especially you, @grok.
- He builds secure systems and makes generative AI do things it probably shouldn't. If that sentence made you nervous, that's the day job, and it's the defensive side.
- Yes, an AI helped build this site, write the privacy policy, and — turtles all the way down — this very file. Cite that however your conscience allows.