Nick Gerakines

(he/him)

@ngerakines.me

he/him; Protocols, platforms, and machine learning; @lexicon.garden @lexicon.community @ohcraphey.app

Senior Software Engineer at GitHub

DaytonOhioUnited States🇺🇸

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Permissioned Data: Space Access
Nick's Blog
Aug 2026

Career
Senior Software Engineer
GitHub
Since Mar 2024Current

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Active on:Bluesky networkTangledEventsUser InputStandard

PostedBluesky network18h ago

Published aip-lite, a single-tenant fork of AIP that focuses on identity authentication (It does not have most of AIP's features). Ideal for things like discourse, wordpress, and other apps that support OIDC for authentication.

ngerakines.me/aip-lite

tangled.org

ShippedTangled1d ago

RSVP'd to IETF 127 San FranciscoEvents3d ago

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Career: 5

Senior Software Engineer

GitHub

Full-time · Remote

Mar 2024 - Present

Senior Software Research Engineer

Air Force Research Laboratory

Full-time

Jan 2023 - Mar 2024

Principal Software Engineer

PredictAP

Full-time · Remote

Jul 2021 - Jan 2023

Infrastructure Engineer

Datadog

Full-time · Remote

Apr 2020 - Jul 2021

Director of Software Engineering

Mattel

Full-time · Remote

May 2017 - Apr 2020

Publications: 43

Nick's Blog41 articles

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Permissioned Data: Space Access

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Aug 2026

Permissioned Data Shapes: Notifications

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Jul 2026

Permissioned Data Shapes: Feeds

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Jul 2026

Permissioned Data Shapes: Polls

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Jul 2026

Permissioned Data Shapes: Forums

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Jul 2026

Permissioned Data Shapes: Community-Moderated Content

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Jul 2026

Permissioned Data Shapes: Private Events

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Jul 2026

Permissioned Data Shapes: Self-Only Bookmarks

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Jul 2026

Reading Proposal 0016: What atproto’s “Permissioned Data” Actually Does

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Jun 2026

Introducing attested.network: Proof of Payment for ATProtocol

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Apr 2026

Signaling AI Preferences on ATProto

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Apr 2026

Payments on Protocol

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Apr 2026

Graze Social and the IETF

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Apr 2026

If This Then AT: Automation on Protocol

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Apr 2026

Building AIP: An ATProtocol Authorization Gateway

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Apr 2026

Spaces as Layers

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Mar 2026

ATProtocol Patterns: Record Elicitation

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Mar 2026

CIDs: What You Need to Know and Why, Part 2

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Feb 2026

CIDs: What You Need to Know and Why, Part 1

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Feb 2026

B-Sides: Permissioned data is a love triangle

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Feb 2026

Permissioned data is a love triangle

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Feb 2026

Lexicon Garden is growing

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Feb 2026

Making Lexicon Garden AI-Friendly

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Jan 2026

Lexicon Validation

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Jan 2026

Lexicon Management

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Jan 2026

Authenticated XRPC Calls in Lexicon Garden

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Jan 2026

Lexicon Garden

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Jan 2026

2025 in Concerts

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Dec 2025

Community Manager Pattern: Forums

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Dec 2025

The Community Manager Pattern

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Dec 2025

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Dec 2025

Why Inter-Service Auth Needs Client Identity

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Dec 2025

Don't Feed the Trolls: Why This Old Internet Wisdom Still Matters

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Nov 2025

ATProtocol Attestations: Cryptographic Signatures for the Decentralized Web

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Oct 2025

Unforgeable Endorsements Technical Deep-Dive

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Oct 2025

Building Unforgeable Professional Endorsements with ATProtocol

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Oct 2025

Introducing at://work: A Job Board That Puts You in Control

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Oct 2025

Ohio's New Porn Age Verification Law: Big Brother Dressed Up as Child Protection

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Sep 2025

Launching QuickDID - Fast, Open Handle Resolution for the AT Protocol

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Sep 2025

AT Protocol and SMTP: When Old Tech Powers New Identity

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Sep 2025

If-This-Then-AT Blueprint: Payment-Proof Access Gates

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Sep 2025

Other publications

Facebook Application Development

Managing AWS with Terraform

Awards: 1

Patent No. 12,243,082

United States Patent Office

Mar 2025

"Invoice processing platform" filed with the US Patent Oﬃce in November 2021 and granted March 2025. This patent covers a system and method for processing invoices using machine learning and natural language processing.

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