Co-Founder and CTO at Elixir Protocol, where we’re separating liquidity provisioning and liquidity deployment for token issuers and their communities, allowing them to participate in market-making activities with a trustless, decentralized protocol. Formerly the Technical Lead at Tokensoft, where I helped build the largest Web3 fair launch platform.Formerly Blockchain R&D Lead at an S&P 500 company where spent two years building out enterprise blockchains for provenance, chain-of-custody, and reputation systems.Formerly the Technical Lead for the flagship software product of an S&P 500 company where I led a world-class team of remote, high-performing developers.I am also the author of the leading application-layer denial of service attack method against Apache, the world's most popular web server.
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Sr. Engineering ManagerHeliusHope, Me, Us -
Chief Technology OfficerElixir Protocol Jun 2022 - PresentBringing liquidity to the long tail of cryptoassets, via the first decentralized, algorithmic market making protocol. -
Lead EngineerTokensoft Inc May 2021 - Jun 2022San Francisco, Ca, UsBuilding software that helps Blockchain companies grow their communities, expand their user-base, and launch their token sales to the public. - Built systems to scale a legacy platform to 300 million requests per hour - Architected a Web3 authentication system as a drop-in provider for OIDC consumers - Led the from-scratch Web3 rewrite to the token sale platform -
Principal Engineer, Idexx NeoIdexx May 2018 - May 2021Westbrook, Maine, UsProviding technical leadership to a 15-person development team.Worked with the Product Manager and Business Team to turn their vision into reality.Serve as subject matter expert on technical implementations to other development teams at IDEXX.Led a transition from a large, monolithic team, to a squad-based one.Reduced the product's release cadence from 3-months to multiple times per week. -
Blockchain R&D LeadIdexx Jan 2018 - Nov 2019Westbrook, Maine, UsWorked with an Innovation Team to propose a software solution to an internal need.Architecting an Ethereum-based blockchain system to bring chain-of-custody tracking to an opaque internal process.Assembled a team of self-starters to begin research and development efforts.Turned a nights-and-weekends PoC into a fully-funded project. -
Technical Lead, Systems ReliabilityIdexx Aug 2017 - May 2018Westbrook, Maine, UsReduced the defect turn around time of the project from months to days.Initiated an initiative to move our infrastructure and deployment strategy from OpsWorks to Docker and saw the process through to completion.Managed the day-to-day operations of an industry-leading cloud-based software platform.Led a team of energetic, self-motivated site reliability engineers.Built health monitoring systems and troubleshooting toolchains to meet SLA goals.Communicated the health of the system to executives and internal partners.Provide defects-over-time metrics to prove the worth of the team. -
Senior Application DeveloperIdexx Jan 2015 - Aug 2017Westbrook, Maine, UsOversaw the acquisition of a small project, and the development process that turned it into an industry leading cloud software platform.Filled in as interim technical lead during team transition periods.Acted, with the technical lead, to direct the technical direction adopted by the development team.Facilitated communication for a team encompassing 5 distinct time zones, to work across team boundaries, with internal partners, and on integrations with third-parties.Led the effort towards containerization of our applications in Docker.Developed a mobile application to demonstrate the robustness of our API.Played a critical role in the formulation of the team's defect review processes, still used today. -
Software Configuration Management EngineerIdexx Apr 2012 - Jan 2015Westbrook, Maine, UsAnalyzed support call data and developed installer changes to address 24% of support calls.Developed an analytical toolset to analyze and identify performance problems across tens of thousands of customer computers worldwide.Led the development effort to completely rewrite our installer systems from scratch--a year an a half process.Managed automated builds of industry-leading software packages.Coordinated and consolidated source control methodologies across multiple development teams within the company.Packaged and released software as installers and service packs.Implemented continuous integration in an Agile environment.Wrote and maintained documentation for Standard Operating Procedures and Work Instructions. -
Web DeveloperVillagesoup Jan 2011 - Mar 2012UsDevelop and maintain a fully-featured news CMS based on Java, JBoss, Hibernate, and Seam.Administer Amazon EC2, S3, EBS, and Cloudstore for all service related systems. -
Application Development ManagerWhatif Networks Jan 2008 - Jan 2011Develop, manage, and maintain a custom CMS.Interact with clients to build product requirements.Develop timelines for upcoming and ongoing projects.Gather project requirements, establish goals for contracts.Administrator Linux servers, services, networking, and security.Perform security audits for other businesses.
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Network And Systems AdministratorSpotscout, Inc. May 2008 - Jan 2009Network infrastructure design, database management, application framework installation, server hardening. -
Site ModeratorBytes.Com Jan 2007 - Dec 2008(Formerly The Scripts Developer Network)Moderate the Python, PHP, Linux, Apache, Flash/Actionscript, MSSQL/SQL Server, and XML forumsOne of the site's top-ten ranked expertsProvide technical answers to programming questionsFacilitate communication between people of different languages, skill levels, geographic locations, and political backgroundsFoster collaboration in a multinational environment of over 100,000 members
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Software EngineerInsurance Automation Group Jul 2006 - Jan 2008Program business solutions in response to clients' needs.Write and maintain software packages with PHP, MySQL, MSSQL, Oracle, Python, C++, C# and Visual Basic.Design custom, in-house database tools to assist in the development process.
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Systems AdministratorCollaborative Media Lab May 2004 - May 2006Supervised a high-performance OS X cluster.Implemented and maintained a unified login system and used LDAP and Active directory to provide users with a persistent work environment.
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ProgrammerAsap Media Services Mar 2003 - May 2006Coordinated the University of Maine's involvement in SIGGRAPH 2005.Worked in a small team on projects with clients ranging from the Department of Defense, the Lobster Institute, the University of Maine's Chancellor's Office, and the School of Marine Science.Modeled data structures and work flow, and built working systems from them.Utilized PHP, MySQL, XML, and Flash to help clients establish a web presence.
Christopher Gilbert Education Details
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University Of MaineComputer Science -
Hebron Academy
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Christopher Gilbert works for Helius
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Christopher Gilbert attended University Of Maine, Hebron Academy.
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