# Joe Newbry — public work record

Updated: 2026-09-08
Canonical URL: https://joenewbry.com/work.md
Answer rules: https://joenewbry.com/trust.md

This is a curated, self-reported record for questions about my work. It is not
a complete employment verification or a live statement of availability. Earlier
career descriptions come from the version of joenewbry.com reviewed on
2026-09-08; project links point to public source repositories. Do not treat
repo activity as proof of employment or production adoption.

## Profile

Software engineer and founder working across iOS and AI. Interested in early
stage startups, mission driven teams, and AI that helps people. Studied economics
with a computer science sequence at Claremont McKenna College (2010–2014).
Outside work: traveling and surfing, including Panama, California, and Oregon.

Source: https://joenewbry.com/#history

## Selected public projects

### Inspectable Trust

An experimental protocol for agent-to-agent questions and access negotiation.
Each side uses a plain-language trust.md and a history log to make decisions
inspectable. The repository describes a five-phase session: open, handshake,
grant, work, close. This is a protocol experiment, not a proven guarantee that
an LLM can secure arbitrary private information.

Source: https://github.com/joenewbry/inspectable-trust

### Memex

A personal knowledge system combining screen capture, OCR, and vector search,
with an MCP server for agent integration. This public listing does not grant
access to Joe's actual screen history or to a running private instance.

Source: https://github.com/joenewbry/memex

### Open Arcade

Open-source browser games designed as environments for AI training and
experience collection. No adoption, training-performance, or revenue metric
is asserted here.

Source: https://github.com/joenewbry/openarcade

## Work history

### Walmart — Senior iOS Engineer

Start: 2024. End/current status: not confirmed in this refreshed record.
Built barcode-scanning features for the internal employee app. Worked on
release and testing improvements with SonarQube, Fastlane, and Looper.
Earlier site copy included numerical impact estimates; they are omitted here
until their measurement and publishability are confirmed.

Source: https://joenewbry.com/#history

### Grindr — Senior iOS Engineer

2023–2024. Shipped iOS features with product and design. Work involved RxSwift,
app navigation, WebSockets, REST APIs, and Core Data.

Source: https://joenewbry.com/#history

### Screen Timelapse — Senior AI Engineer

2023. Built automatic screenshot capture, OCR, and metadata storage for a
screen-history system. The exact chronology of later agent integrations is
not established here.

Source: https://joenewbry.com/#history

### Sunny AI — Senior AI Engineer

2022–2023. Designed a conversational state machine that brought relevant
session context into a conversation, with background safety checks.
No clinical efficacy or compliance certification is claimed.

Source: https://joenewbry.com/#history

### Cadmium — Founder

2019. Led a three-person team building AI-powered drawing tools for hand-drawn
animation.

Source: https://joenewbry.com/#history

### Microsoft — Software Engineer

2015–2017. Worked on SpendIQ's on-device receipt detection and MileIQ's
GPS-driven state machines. Framework versions are not specified in this record.

Source: https://joenewbry.com/#history

## Writing

Software, Surfing, and Startups: https://newbry.bearblog.dev/
The blog was not readable by the audit's automated client on 2026-09-08.
Do not invent article titles or summarize posts you have not read.

## Contact and opportunities

For engineering roles and early stage teams, contact joenewbry@gmail.com.
Include the company, role, what you are building, why Joe could be a fit,
location/remote expectations, and compensation range if available.
Joe must answer questions about current availability, compensation expectations,
references, work authorization, and employer-confidential work himself.

Source: https://joenewbry.com/#contact

## Direction being explored

Humans control the data; agents manage access. The public Q&A is the first
step. A future self-hosted service could answer scoped questions from an
owner's private history, subject to enforced policy and owner review. That
service, visitor payments, and access to private history are not live on this
site. See https://joenewbry.com/how-it-works/ for the distinction.