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New York, NY, US

Loot is a Telegram-first, consumer-focused development studio building novel, socially-embedded experiences alongside some of the best teams in the world. We own one of the most effective growth engines in the industry, anchored by our digital real-estate portfolio of more than 500 brands across nearly every key consumer vertical in both web2 and web3.

I joined Boost as the company’s first-ever protocol lead, focused on rebuilding RabbitHole Quest Protocol and developing the L2/L3 strategy. I spearheaded the effort to reimagine on-chain incentives, which led to the birth of Boost Protocol. I built the company’s entire account abstraction system, which included a full ERC4337 implementation with novel.

New York City, NY, US

This a16z-backed team building next-gen creative tools powered by artist-trained AI models contracted me to design and implement TITLES Protocol v2, a modular on-chain publishing system featuring a free-association IP reference graph that introduced a novel attribution-based revenue sharing model. Soon after release, it was featured by Base during Onchain.

New York, NY, US

Firechain was an asynchronous, event-driven blockchain built to power the open economy. After approximately two years of building, we decided to refocus efforts elsewhere and release some of the more unique aspects of the product to another L1 team.

This ambitious a16z-backed startup focused on the creator economy commissioned me to design DAO infrastructure, including a modular smart contract framework built to power nested DAO relationships with flexible permission controls, dynamic role issuance based on member contributions, and AI-driven analytics.

Los Altos, California, US

This a16z-backed Layer 1 blockchain network commissioned me to restructure core protocol components and develop various libraries and tooling designed to support both internal and external developers in the integration of DeSo's decentralized social graph. Core functionality included wallet/key management, cryptographic proofs and signatures, transaction.

Memphis, Tennessee, US

I led the team responsible for the development of the Open Banking platform, a modern financial services framework that handles things like hierarchical account management, global transfers and settlements, secure ledger operations, KYC/BSA/AML compliance, and self-serve banking. My work enabled Evolve to become the world's leading banking-as-a-service.

New York, US

Celestial Technology was my technology consultancy which was heavily focused on research and development in the blockchain and financial technology sectors. I had the pleasure of working with clients from around the globe, including government agencies, financial institutions, and publicly traded industry leaders, to develop elegant solutions for highly.

Hangzhou, CN

This award-winning international trade platform invited me to advise on buyer protection, particularly through the lens of payments, security and transactional reliability. My work helped create what came to be known as Trade Assurance.

Woodland Hills, CA, US

As a project lead, I managed all technical aspects of software consulting relationships with a range of startups and enterprise clients. My team built robust and scalable solutions, including core IoT infrastructure for AT&T, consumer risk and value analytics for American Express, and the entire DBaaS product for Couchbase.

Founded by the creator of eFax, Jell was an enterprise remote presence technology partner active in fields that have been begging for innovation, particularly telemedicine. I advised on technology, strategy and security.

San Francisco, California, US

I built various blockchain integrations, algorithmic trading infrastructure, risk-based AML, KYC and compliance flows, and dynamic rebalancing of large-scale bitcoin hot wallets for what was then an early-stage crypto startup. Bolt has since gone on to become one of the world's best performing consumer-facing payment processing solutions.

At this Global Cleantech Top 10 Company, I was responsible for leading a distributed, remote-first team of engineers in building of some of the most revolutionary software the solar industry has ever seen. Our work was recognized by countless media outlets including Reuters, Fox Business, Forbes, MarketWatch, Yahoo and the LA Times, and received numerous.

Vienna, VA, US

I was responsible for building, testing and maintaining applications built for government agencies to help respond to local and global crisis management.