How Machine Payments Protocol (MPP) works on Tempo · Tempo
Known for
First author of the IETF draft that gives HTTP 402 real payment semantics.
Why chosen
He connects consumer apps, developer tools and stablecoins in the plumbing of machine payments. He built software at Pinterest, VSCO and GitHub, then at Stripe as an engineering lead, and at Bridge, the stablecoin platform. At Tempo Labs he is first author of draft-httpauth-payment, the IETF Internet-Draft published in September 2026 that turns HTTP 402 "Payment Required" into a standard payment challenge and underpins the Machine Payments Protocol. Reserved for decades, finally specified.
How Machine Payments Protocol (MPP) works on Tempo · Tempo
Role
Software Engineer, Tempo Labs
Signal
BuilderEngineer at Tempo Labs; first author of the Payment HTTP authentication Internet-Draft, published September 2026. Listed as first author, Tempo Labs, on IETF draft-httpauth-payment-01 (Sept 9, 2026).
