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Portland, OR, US

San Francisco, California, US

• Designed custom tokens, managing technicalities around rebasing, pseudorandom generation through VDFs, and ranked choice voting.
• Bridged our currencies to Optimism and Base using a custom bridge implementation.
• Designed a cross-chain messaging protocol using on-chain state proofs.
• Worked as principle liaison for multiple Solidity security audits and a bug bounty.
• Used and integrated with Ethereum standards: ERC-20, 712, 721, 1167, 2612, 4337, 4626.
• Open sourced and maintained an on-chain code-base with GitHub security and CI for contributors.

San Francisco, California, US

• Authored financial APIs to support compounding interest and recurring bank payments.
• Secured user funds and PII with symmetric encryption using Vault and Mongoose.
• Covered infrastructure needs in a small startup setting, maintaining a SaltStack configured and HashiStack automated AWS EC2 cluster of containerized services.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Worked to learn the blockchain development space and build a viable product within my first 3 weeks.
• Designed a smart contract dapp to mediate off-chain sharing and constructed a dispute framework to incentivize positive interactions
• Developed in Solidity and tested on Truffle/Ganache to ensure contract safety with a front-end coded using web3.js and MetaMask
• Applied economic modeling and game theory to assess Renter and Lender mediation

• Built multiple simulation models from the ground up in Python and C++ for model testing and analysis to discover multiple power law relations in lower dimensional phase transitions
• Lead my own project, bringing in both junior and senior team members to collaborate
• Efficiently generated and analyzed 100’s of batches of 1,000,000+ semi-structured data points and identified causal features in data trends via Linear Algebra and Monte Carlo methods
• Used regression, scaling, and smoothing techniques to condense data and generate simple and readable data visualizations including 3D time ordered pictures, graphical comparisons, and short movies to help look at.
• Creatively optimized and reworked data algorithms: a project with 3 day simulations on 4000 node systems redesigned to produce hour long simulations on 500,000 node systems by reducing the dimensionality of the problem
• Wrote and reviewed technical writing on numerous advanced and cutting edge topics and created a repository to track relevant new publications in our fast-paced research field

• Worked as a teacher and a mentor for 24 academic quarters in 16 different physics courses including non-major, STEM breadth requirement, and physics major/upper-division courses
• Managed classes from 10 to 200 students as well as interactive labs of 30 students using a variety of classroom and teaching structures including lectures, think->pair->share activities, and project based supervised.
• Lead teams of junior teaching assistants for exam proctoring and grading organizing supervision of test taking students, orderly collection of tests, division of labor in grading, and exam security and storage

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Physics

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Physics