John Shutt Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, CA, US

Building onchain crypto accounts for normal people.

Co-founder of the Across Protocol and litepaper author. Contributed significantly to the initial protocol design, including the pool/relayer system, cross-chain oracle validation, and product strategy. Less involved after the initial protocol design stage but still an active community member and supporter. Across has grown by leaps and bounds since I.

Every City, Worldwide, OO

Developer of smart contracts and new experiments at UMA. Creator of oSnap. Co-founder of the Across Protocol and author of the litepaper. Invented protected tokens and the optimistic governance module and helped integrate various other protocols (Polymarket, Sherlock, etc.) with UMA on the technical side. Excited about the potential of UMA's optimistic.

London, GB

Led development of a $2.2M blockchain track-and-trace and compliance project for the agritech industry. Previously, led EY's development team for the 2mota blockchain resource management application, worked on Ethereum smart contract development, integration, and testing for internal projects, specialist reviews of emerging proof-of-stake cryptocurrencies.

Created blockchain applications, games, and collectibles, Solidity smart contracts, distributed apps (“dapps”), tokens, and React frontend interfaces using web3 and the Truffle framework. Developed a blockchain game utilizing ERC20 and ERC721 tokens and consulted for an external client on dapps for the Ethereum blockchain.

Wrote frontend and backend code for clients who need internal business management systems and stylish frontend web interfaces, using JavaScript, PHP, and WordPress.

San Francisco, CA, US

Recruited an international team of developers and designers for a new startup and researched and evaluated elements of the company’s software architecture.

Ran a community-supported investigative journalism project, publishing on a freelance basis with partners at KQED, Hoodline, and other outlets.

Facilitated high-impact investigative journalism in the San Francisco Bay Area with a SecureDrop system, which encrypts and anonymizes communications between sources and journalists over Tor onion services.

Mountain View, CA, US

Gave feedback and advice to Google's public policy team on new technologies, privacy issues, and hackerspaces.

Helped a growing universal basic income advocacy group coordinate events and panel discussions, drive membership, and launch new initiatives.

San Francisco, CA, US

Led development of Westward Leaning's ecommerce storefront, built using Liquid, Sass, JavaScript, and a Shopify backend. Worked with our CEO and the design and ecommerce teams to meet our online goals, and hired and trained a junior developer.

Ran a micro-store selling books and art in secret locations throughout San Francisco.

Directed the design and development of mobile wishlist app for kids. This role included short story writing, coding, recruiting, interviewing, UX design, systems administration, and multiple ad hoc tasks supporting this early-stage startup.

Designed and built a web application using PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript to run free sports prediction games for bars and restaurants.

Contributed to the Facebook FanPageEngine and iFrameEngine, using PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, and various external APIs. Worked with the CEO and lead developer to fix specific problems as they arose.

Led the content team for Planet Halo, now part of the IGN network, while I was in middle school and high school. Wrote and edited news and content, directed a team of writers and moderators, and shepherded a large forum community. Grew the site to 1,000,000+ monthly front-page visitors and 100,000+ monthly forum visitors at its peak.