Oliver Hirst is a systems architect and independent researcher working on artificial intelligence, cryptography, and machine cognition. He is the creator of **GödelOS**, a symbolic-cognition platform for transparent, self-aware AI, and **Project Chimera**, a psychometric engine for high-fidelity persona modeling. His work focuses on explainable reasoning, decentralized identity, and trust networks, exploring how machines can understand and justify their own decisions through formal logic and recursive self-analysis.