Founder

Origin Story

Shamoka Aiken, an Army veteran, is the founder of Wrek'd Tech. He brings over two decades of experience in IT systems, cybersecurity, and large-scale architecture to the table. His professional career has been dedicated to designing reliable, secure, and complex technical systems across military, government, and commercial sectors.

Exposure to the scale and downstream environmental impact of electronic waste during military service revealed a structural problem that existing recycling infrastructure was not designed to solve. Witnessing firsthand the volume of discarded electronics and the limitations of conventional disposal methods led to a fundamental question: why are we unable to recover valuable materials from devices we engineered with precision in the first place?

This question has driven more than 11 years of sustained research and development—not as a side project, but as a deliberate, long-horizon commitment to understanding what would be required to address the problem at a systems level.

Background & Expertise

Mr. Aiken holds dual degrees in Computer Science and Cybersecurity, with extensive experience in:

Large-scale IT infrastructure design and implementation
Systems architecture for complex, multi-component platforms
Security and compliance in regulated environments
Project coordination across distributed technical teams

This background informs the Ex-Spec platform's architecture: it is designed as a system with defined interfaces, modular components, and explicit validation requirements—not as a collection of loosely connected ideas.

Sustained Strategic Execution

Execution Realism

The founder leads system architecture, technical documentation, and partnership coordination. However, successful validation and development require domain-specific expertise that extends beyond any single individual's capabilities.

Academic partners provide critical research expertise in physics, chemistry, materials science, and robotics. Specialized technical hires will be required for roles such as Chief Technology Officer, sensor systems engineering, and chemical process design as the project advances through validation phases.

This is not framed as a limitation—it is a deliberate structure. Complex technical systems require distributed expertise, and the Ex-Spec development strategy is designed around that reality.

Long-Term Cmmitment

This work represents more than a decade of sustained focus and will require years more to validate, refine, and eventually deploy. The founder's commitment to this problem is not contingent on short-term commercial outcomes—it is driven by the conviction that electronic waste recovery is a structural challenge that demands a structural solution.

Wrek’d Tech intends to transition to a Public Benefit Corporation to protect mission integrity as the organization scales.