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London, Gb

Los Angeles, California, United States

Led the smart contract development at Jasmine Energy, an RWA Tokenization and Derivatives platform for green assets.• Solely responsible for designing, developing and deploying the smart contracts for Jasmine’s tokenized Renewable Energy Credits (RECs) protocol. Implemented in Solidity using both Hardhat and Foundry.• Designed and implemented Jasmine’s core Energy Attribute Token (EAT). Deployed modular and (UUPS and Diamond) upgradeable contracts in keeping with sound smart contract separation principals.• Designed fungible (ERC-20) derivates using EATs to develop Jasmine Liquidity Tokens (JLT).• Implemented Python service to securely authorize the minting of EAT from the Jasmine registry bridges’ AMQP messages. Used AWS KMS to securely manage signing credentials to produce ERC-712 signatures attesting to bridge events and certifying an EAC’s metadata.• Developed cross-chain JLT bridge, using LayerZero, allowing bridging and retiring between Polygon and Base (with support for other EVM networks if desired). Extended basic OFT contract to support custom operations.

New York, New York, United States

Managed and individually contributed to Everyrealm's numerous blockchain development projects.• Developed and deployed the Atari GFT project, a partnership with Atari that saw the tokenization of iconic games such as Space Invaders. Developed batch air dropping mechanism to deliver OnCyber worlds to airdrop recipient. Use Chainlink VRF to implement probabilistic redemption model for GFTs.• Collaborated with product management to develop technical specifications, create project milestones and KPIs, and managed or personally implemented smart contract requirements.• Developed smart contract engineering handbook outlining the team’s architectural design principles, code standards, and engineering CI/CD principles. Worked collaboratively with team to encapsulate the shared understanding and continued refining these doctrines iteratively as new learning arose.• Spearheaded internal engineering workshops on topics ranging from EVM fundamentals to ZK Proofs in the interest of developing a corporate learning atmosphere and building engineering camaraderie.

Nifty Luxe enables luxury fashion brands to tokenize and sell their digital creations, backed by decentralized technologies and brought to life through consumer applications.• Built and led a team of 3 engineers to create the NFTLX platform, a fashion content studio and marketplace that partners with brands and artists to produce bespoke NFTs of their products.• Worked closely with external stakeholders to develop custom token mechanics culminating in a unique digital experience for their brand, powered by ThreeJS.• Programmed RFID chips which were embedded within partners’ physical items to link products to their NFT. • Built a multi channel payment system allowing NFTs to be purchased with crypto or credit card (using Stripe), which processed >$750k in GMV.• Developed NFT smart contracts in Cadence for release on the Flow network, allowing holders to redeem associated physical products, attend token gated online events. Later supported bridging to Ethereum, preserving all token functionality.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Individually contributed to the RunGo iOS application, a social network and tracking tool for passionate runners.• Spearheaded to modernization of the legacy codebase from Objective-C to Swift.• Developed and released route sharing and collaboration features.

Vancouver, Canada Area

Worked as part of the Dapper founding engineering team to release CryptoKitties, a groundbreaking NFT game on Ethereum.• Implemented components of the genetic breeding mechanics in Solidity, running on local Misty client, in Truffle suite.• Contributed to the development of the CryptoKitties marketplace smart contracts allowing CryptoKitties to be bought and sold in Eth - prior to there being NFT marketplace solutions.• Assisted in the drafting of the widely adopted Non-Fungible Token Standard, EIP-721.• Personally implemented pseudorandom number generation in Solidity to be used as entropy to breeding engine.

Vancouver, Canada Area

Prototyped early stage iOS projects for internal and external product validation.• Worked closely with product management to produce a new prototype each week to validate a product proposal. Iterated on viable prototypes to release for beta testing to Apple test flight.• Contributed to other iOS projects internally as needed, primarily implementing new UI using Swift and UIKit.

Vancouver, Canada Area

Worked on Timeline News, a news in context app, winner of Apple Editor's choice 2018.• Implemented automatic page reloading on server-side updates to content.• Implemented novel UI components and animations such as header card parallax, custom interactive scrollbars which fit the brand, and custom sharing functions.