title: Beam (Decentralized E2EE Chat Application)
start: 2022-08-01
end: 2025-08-01
project-url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plaYwlGl4NM
associated-with: ../experience/sonr.yml
skills:
  - React Native
  - Matrix Protocol
  - WebAuthn
  - Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs)
  - Mobile App Development
  - Cryptography
description: |
  - Directed the technical strategy and execution for a cross-functional engineering team in the co-development of Beam, a high-performance, cross-platform mobile messaging application built with React Native.
  - Architected the secure messaging infrastructure by heavily customizing and integrating the decentralized Matrix protocol, delivering robust, end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) communication that ensures absolute data privacy and censorship resistance.
  - Pioneered Web3 identity integration by completely replacing traditional, centralized authentication (emails/phone numbers) with Sonr Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs). This enabled passwordless onboarding, self-sovereign user profiles, and seamless cryptographic key exchanges.
  - Bridged the gap between complex cryptography and consumer UX, guiding the frontend and product teams to abstract away the underlying decentralized routing and key management, resulting in a frictionless, "Web2-grade" chat experience.