Michael Lesane Email & Phone Number

Austin, Tx, Us

Implemented and maintained smart contracts for the Lagrange State Committee, and the preprocessing and verification of zero-knowledge fraud proofs.Implemented modules for the Lagrange node facilitating the processing and verification of Layer-2 (Arbitrum and Optimism) settlement data.Coordinated with cryptography engineering to interface zero-knowledge proving systems with smart contracts, encoding proof data for binary compatibility between NodeJS scripts, Solidity contracts, and Circom-based verifiers.Contributed to the shipping and deployment/launching of two private test networks for development partners.Benchmarked and stress tested smart contracts in order to prescribe and implement optimizations, or recommend the use of zero-knowledge proofs.Contributed to smart contracts and unit tests for the EigenLayer-compatible Lagrange Active Validator Service.Prepared documentation and presentations for onboarding new hires and detailing protocol functionality and workflows for development partners.Conducted or contributed to hiring interviews for engineering, engineering management, product management, product marketing, and cryptography research roles.Assisted in the outlining of the technical specification for Lagrange's storage infrastructure.Spearheaded research and development pertaining to realtime state delta data extraction strategies for go-ethereum nodes.Reviewed and proofread technical articles intended for public consumption for grammatical and mathematical correctness.

Implemented the initial version of the Lagrange attestation node/network and accompanying docker containerization.Assisted in data-driven addressable market research informing fundraising by bulk-processing DeFi protocol data from Messari and The Graph protocol.Participated in meeting with VCs, describing the protocol design/implementation/architecture and defending its viability.Informed early engineering development processes and infrastructure.Assisted in identifying potential early development partners, and provided ecosystem and open-source introductions.

Allen, Tx, Us

Debugged, modernized, and expanded functionality of e-commerce websites, in-house content management system, and in-house order management systems.Developed and maintained accompanying unit and integration tests and testing infrastructure, using continuous integration for routine test automation, reporting, and analytics.Diagnosed, reported, and resolved issues related to website and systems operations, both in the codebase and the application stack.Developed, maintained, and documented software infrastructure for management of Apple devices by institutional customers.Helped streamline operations by integrating the order processing infrastructure of a subsidiary into that of the parent company.Reduced organizational expenditures by migrating the electronic software delivery system to Amazon S3.Built and streamlined reporting tools and other resources to assist sales, marketing, and accounting departments.Troubleshooted, maintained, and built out cXML-based e-procurement software infrastructure.Modernized/migrated payment/transaction processing system.Developed and revised scripts for the generation and automated transfer of data feeds.Developed an executive sales dashboard, utilizing sales data to summarize and compare the performance of company sales representatives and forecast future revenue and margin.Developed a data pipeline between SuiteCRM and an in-house order management system.UI/frontend development.Updated, designed, and implemented web pages and layouts in CSS/LESSCSS/SASS and HTML.Backend development, scripting, and system configuration.Actively maintained IT and engineering documentation to help standardize processes and troubleshooting.

Developed and documented scripts in Python for database maintenance, test automation, stress testing, and benchmarking of software products. Developed a comprehensive test suite automating quality assurance test cases that had previously been executed manually.Developed and debugged scripts in Bash to secure and configure software packages (e.g. J2EE, Tomcat with SSL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB) on Ubuntu Amazon Web Service Machine Images.Modified database schema migration scripts in Python, evaluated software upgrades. Developed and tested installation and post-installation configuration scripts for RPM and DEB software packages.Configured and troubleshooted a JBoss and PostgreSQL based web application stack.Extended remote key management software system to analyze, extract, and store metadata from X.509 digital certificates.Evaluated software for quality, troubleshooting and debugging when necessary. Reviewed and drafted software user guide revisions and onboarding documentation.

Developed software in C++ to parse mangled names generated by the Microsoft Visual C++ compiler, converting them into prototypes or the GCC mangling scheme. To be integrated into the High Performance Parallex (HPX) parallel runtime system; will enable HPX builds on different platforms to work together on the same simulations.Developed a parallel-computed artificial neural network library in C++, utilizing HPX libraries for parallelization.

Contracted to draft papers and articles related to a number of topics, conducting research where necessary.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Science

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