About
Jeff Hanson has spent three decades in Big Tech — 22 years at Microsoft, hyperscaler work at Google, and today as Executive Practice Leader of Data Centers at Everforth Apex — building and securing the infrastructure that runs the modern world. The Null Identity: Plight of the Zeros is his debut novel: a techno-thriller in which a woman is erased from every system that proves she exists — built entirely from documented fact.
Experience
- 22 years at Microsoft — from Microsoft Hardware to The Home of the Future to the Windows War Room.
- A decade of cybersecurity and data-privacy consulting.
- Hyperscaler infrastructure leadership at Google.
- Now an AI Infrastructure leader — building the hyperscale data centers and AI systems that the threats in the novel actually run on.
- Founder & publisher, Saturday Island Press, LLC. Based in Seattle.
- Named inventor on two U.S. patents: US 5,935,224 and US 5,559,943.
What I write about — and where
Infrastructure of Intelligence
My LinkedIn newsletter — strategic intelligence on AI infrastructure.
I also publish The Signal, the sourced reality companion to the novel — tracking the documented events behind each Act. Read The Signal →
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My take on technology
We are assembling the architecture of total identity — and the AI to run it — far faster than any rule to govern it. Three places where the law trails the technology:
Data-privacy law with teeth
That treats a person's identity as their own.
A framework for powerful AI
Governed like other technologies too dangerous to build unchecked.
A living Fourth Amendment
That still means something when an algorithm runs the search.
CIVIX — the scoring system in my novel — is the one invention. Everything it is assembled from is already for sale.
For journalists & media
Available for commentary and interviews on: data brokers and the surveillance economy; AI infrastructure and governance; identity "zeroing" and data-driven erasure; the Fourth Amendment in the algorithmic age; and cybercrime (pig-butchering fraud, healthcare ransomware). Every claim in the fiction is sourced in The Signal.
Headshot & one-page bio available on request.