Orie Steele

Strategy, Architecture, Development

Austin, TX

What do I do?

Agentic product development — I help creators keep their authentic voice while shipping faster — no AI psychosis.
Prototype to production — I architect and ship — from first commit to production deployment.
Innovation to stay ahead — I help organizations adopt emerging standards before they're forced to, turning future risk into present advantage.

Track Record

IETF RFCs

W3C Standards

IETF Area Director

Tradeverifyd — VP Engineering

Tradeverifyd is a trade intelligence platform that uses agentic AI to help customers answer questions about their supply chain, identify and respond to emerging risks, and comply with trade regulations. We make it easier than anyone else.

Transmute Industries — Co-Founder & CTO

Built the engineering team and product that turned international standards into enterprise software for trade compliance and supply chain transparency. Secured venture funding and delivered products adopted by government and Fortune 500 customers.

Education

Stevens Institute of Technology
BS Cybersecurity & MS Computer Science
2007–2012

Standards Leadership

Application and Real Time Area Director
Internet Engineering Task Force

Using TLS in Applications Co-Chair
Internet Engineering Task Force

Key Transparency Co-Chair
Internet Engineering Task Force

Open Source

go-cose — Go library for signing and encrypting data used across the cloud native ecosystem. Trusted by major vendors for securing software supply chains and attestation workflows.

did-key.js — TypeScript library for creating and resolving decentralized identifiers from cryptographic keys. Used by developers building portable digital identity systems.

Sidetree.js — JavaScript implementation of the Sidetree protocol for scalable decentralized identity networks. Enables thousands of identity operations anchored to a single blockchain transaction.

Connect

orie@or13.io