About
I left a neuroscience lab after years of measuring cognitive decline in aged macaques — running behavioral tests, recording scores, eventually helping prepare their brains for post-mortem analysis. The work produced clean numbers. The numbers became figures in papers.
It stopped being something I could do.
What came after is everything here: infrastructure for people the standard frameworks forgot, and a site that refuses to treat technical writing and literary work as different disciplines.
The Work
Secure Pride exists because LGBTQ+ nonprofits, health clinics, and community organizations handle data with genuinely high-stakes consequences — identity disclosures, health records, the private coordinates of people living in hostile conditions — and almost none of them can protect it adequately. I’m building the infrastructure to close that gap: certificate-based network authentication, privacy-hardened systems design, documentation written for organizations without IT staff. Open-source where possible. Sized for actual capacity.
Any given week might involve writing positioning strategy for a developer platform, designing a certificate lifecycle for a wireless network that can’t afford to fail, or figuring out how a nonprofit with no IT budget can still have enterprise-grade security. The problems look different. The underlying question is always the same: who is this for, and what happens when it fails them?
Context Synapse is a local-first context orchestration framework in Swift — a Bayesian system for managing what an AI model knows about you across time, without that data ever leaving your device. Research project and values statement, simultaneously.
Client work is content strategy, developer marketing, and technical writing — with a consistent focus on infrastructure companies and organizations whose work touches sensitive data or serves communities the default assumptions don’t fit.
Background
Cognitive neuroscience and quantitative psychology at UC Davis — EEG/ERP, eye tracking, representational similarity analysis in the Luck Lab. That work didn’t pull me toward writing. It sharpened how I think about signal, attention, and the cost of systems illegible to the people who depend on them.
Before Secure Pride: content lead at mudstack, fifty-plus episodes of Clear as Mud (guests from Epic, Riot, Sony, Meta VR), growth work at Tennis 919.
I make music — Ableton, Logic, a Universal Audio Volt 2, and a Martin acoustic-electric named Joni. I write speculative fiction. I’m in Durham, NC.
Want to work together? hello@mazzeleczzare.com
Cipher Gothic
The language of systems made intimate.
There is a particular tension in work that lives simultaneously inside locked doors and open poems — the knowledge that infrastructure is a kind of literature, that security protocols are a form of care. Cipher Gothic is born from this doubling: the schematic precision of a network diagram and the soft breath of handwritten marginalia, occupying the same dark page.
Space is deep and pressurized, like the inside of a server room at 2am or the margins of a Blake illuminated manuscript. The background is never merely black — it carries the hue of brushed slate, of oxidized copper, of a screen in a darkened room. Out of this depth emerge thin, exacting marks: arcs of teal that trace the geometry of locks and irises, grids that are barely visible unless you lean close, coordinate marks that suggest something is being measured, documented, cared for with painstaking attention.
Color is restrained to three voices. A deep obsidian ground. A single teal that operates at two temperatures — cool as glass fiber, warm as the signal that pulses through it — deployed with the discipline of a master colorist who knows that scarcity is power. A coral that appears once, exactly once, like a signature or a wound, carrying the full emotional charge of the composition. These are not decoration; they are syntax.
Typography is the instrument of duality. A geometric sans-serif — thin-weight, widely tracked — carries the systems-mind: analytical, elegant, precise as documentation. Against it, a classical serif in oblique attitude carries the literary soul: the poet, the survivor, the one who names things. They share the canvas without merging, each legible in its own register, each essential. Text is sparse. What is written is the minimum necessary truth.
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