Staff Engineer for Mechanism - building defi on bitcoin

Managing the roadmap and product development of a hybrid defi/traditional investment platform. I handle all things product, technology, and still try to code as much as I can ;)

Managed the product, onshore and nearshore hiring, architecture and design, and anything else that was thrown at me by the CEO. I worked with the CFO for onchain financials and managed the security and multisigs for the protocol. I also received a patent for a decentralized metaverse advertising protocol during my tenure.

Fullstack core contributor with Origin Protocol - primarily working on their nft launchpad product, story.xyzI also did some work on the OUSD vault product

I created the Developer Experience dept at Ally Financial and managed a team of 4-6 onshore devs that built tooling for the enterprise. The primary focus was creating a path to migrate developers from legacy monoliths to the cloud, so we created a flagship cli product in golang that is still in use today

I do technical and opinion pieces - primarily on the smart contract platforms and state of the crypto industry. I also advise blockchain projects and contribute to multiple open source projects that I believe in.

Developing Smart Contracts in Node.js and Solidity for liquid and illiquid assets

Mobile Development... I have been developing mobile projects using react-native, iOS, and Android for the FinTech space .

Oversee code quality, unit testing, continuous integration, and 3rd-party vendor integrations. I was also responsible for proof of concepts and for creating reusable frameworks within the mobile space.

UI DevelopmentDeveloper ... UI Developer on a Payment Processing application for the Federal Reserve. Essentially porting old functionality to Java and adding enhancements as determined by the business unit. The application handles millions of transactions daily for the world's largest banks. Related to electronic check processing. Responsibilities include documentation, unit testing, and an aggressive weekly release cycle. Technical Environment IBM Websphere, RAD, IBM DB2, jsp struts interacting with an EJB backend, CMVC source control

Developer ... various small web and mobile projects utilizing open-source technologies. I returned to work for a company due to the market downturn, but am still doing small side projects. Technical Environment Objective-C(iPhone), Google Android mobile platform, J2ME, JAVA SDK 1.4, JAVA J2EE 1.4, JSP, Servlets, tomcat, eclipse, Sybase, ant

Fx Income Java DeveloperDeveloper ... Part of a team of developers working on a new system to support the securitization and tracking of equity, credit card and auto loans. We were a repository for several hundred thousand loans and supported analytics, trading, and the servicing of them. I worked on all tiers, but mainly worked on developing a general ledger module that tied the P&L balance sheet out for all transactions. Technical Environment JAVA SDK 1.4, JAVA J2EE 1.4, JSP, Servlets, Weblogic, tomcat, OsX, Redhat Linux Server, Jbuilder, Sybase, ant, cvs.