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California, United States

New York, Ny, Us

Responsible for the product strategy direction for the Custody product, asset listings, Token Issuance, Wallet functionality, and Staking services.- Led the effort to get Gemini on par with other exchanges in terms of asset availability and wallet functionality- Expanded number of listed assets by 10x going from 7 to 70- Introduced crypto native functionality like staking, web3 support, DeFi integration and private transactions- Led the team building out an MPC wallet for our custody services- Shipped multiple issuance projects minting new tokens for both crypto and fiat backed assets- Regularly met with the NYDFS to keep them up to speed with developments in the industry and new product launches- Presented all new strategic initiatives in crypto to the Board, informing of the thinking behind the strategy and selling them on the direction.- Strategized with Tyler, Cameron, and the rest of leadership to determine the best way to keep up with the most important trends in the industry.

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Zurich, Ch

Led the consensus and networking teams as they prepared to launch the ICP blockchain. Worked closely with engineering, research, and leadership in a number of areas:* Establish best practices for software development and contribution* Design the tokenomics of the ICP coin* Review technical designs of implementing the consensus mechanisms* Iterate on implementation of the gossip protocol and node discovery in a zero-trust environment* Drive cultural improvement and transparent communication

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* Originally joined Coinbase to lead the Payments team. If currency moved at Coinbase, my team facilitated it. In the first year I grew the team from 4 to 13. Afterwards, a report of mine took over EM responsibilities for our fiat services and I transitioned to focus solely on crypto engineering.* Led the Crypto Engineering team, the team responsible for the engineering work behind building wallet software, interfacing with blockchains, and adding assets to Coinbase. Working closely with our talent team, I grew the crypto engineering team from 5 to 24. At the peak of our recruiting efforts, the team and I brought 11 engineers onboard in a quarter.* Improved the reliability of our fiat and crypto payment systems to execute as expected 99.99% of the time at over 20x the scale of transactions we were processing when I joined.* Led a coordinated effort across engineering to safely handle 5+ BTC/ETH forks, including the segwit2x fork. (https://blog.coinbase.com/timeline-and-support-bitcoin-segwit2x-and-bitcoin-gold-eda72525efd)* Collaborated with the Coinbase Security team to migrate billions of dollars worth of crypto. (https://blog.coinbase.com/a-behind-the-scenes-look-at-the-biggest-and-quietest-crypto-transfer-on-record-682ff4a6d9e4)

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San Francisco, California, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

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Projects:Wonderhill - Build out the API for the MySpace interface to various games.Placepop - I was responsible for acquiring a relevant list of nearby places given any latitude and longitude pair in the world. I also developed the ruby back end private API for the iPhone app.

I initiated and coordinated the team behind the product and technical development of Tervoo. I was the primary developer and primary point of contact for all interviews that Tervoo.com held. Interviews included Gary Vaynerchuk, Matt Mullenweg, Leah Culver, Mike Cassidy and other notables. Tervoo was acquired in May 2008.

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I provided programming for Triangle in the areas of logistics, business intelligence, reporting, materials and scheduling. The programs were primarily written in PL/B. I also worked with updating their system to a more sustainable database system as well as a more modern server infrastructure.