Equteq is a fresh-thinking product engineering & talent services consultancy specializing in software architecture & engineering (opensource software), blockchain DApps development (crypto FTs & NFTs), cloud engineering (AWS, Azure, GCP), and engineering talent. Working closely w/ fintech, big data enterprises, blockchain startups | scaleups enabling them to build great products, scale, and innovate. Core Service Offerings (Equteq): Product Development (opensource frameworks & libraries) Fintech & Payments platformsBlockchain, Tokenization + DApps DevelopmentBig Data, LLMs, data change engineeringCloud + DevOps Architecture & EngineeringCTO-as-a-ServiceRecent Customer Projects:- Designed & built of FinTech Risk Platform - designed new Cloud Native web application and platform (including fintech workflows, tools and devOps).- Designed & built web3 proof of concept for Crypto based predictive outcome information based application. (Fungible | Non Fungible Tokens, Staking, Liquidity Pools, Forecasting pools, Oracle-as-a-Service, on Avalanche Blockchain) - Design build of proof of concept for Crypto | Digital Wallet and Wallet Services. (Store, Manage, & Use Crypto, NFTs + FIAT currency services)- Design build for Video First, Social Media NFT App and Platform for Influencers and Fans. NFT sports fan based mobile live-stream application.Key Accomplishments:- Designed product & platform app architectures including data models, user interfaces, business application logic, APIs & data access patterns.- Attracted, engaged & qualified software engineering talent and leadership for Fintech and Blockchain Dev projects (Web & Mobile Apps, Full Stack & Native Cloud Apps) across the Americas, Europe & Africa.¬- Designed and built Equteq’s software, cloud & devOps offerings + platforms for product and application development.- Built Equteq’s RADS (remote agile development squads) to service and build client applications across the Americas, Europe and Africa.

As CTO, performed technical and product development leadership & guidance, MVP product planning, scoping, designing and building using Agile methodologies. Also led Cloud & DevOps planning, designing and implementation. Platform and application engineering design & implementation using open source frameworks & libraries, APIs, OpenAPIs standards, and cloud-native scalable technologies such as microservices, containers, and serverless computing.Big Data focus on data services engineering design & implementation of data models, schemas and continues data updates & changes via CI/CO. Implemented CI/CD pipelines for software engineering code (frontend + backend) + big data services (kafka, spark, airflow, bitquery, hadoop, cloud buckets, etc) for efficient and automated deployment of code and data changes

Developing Turbo, the Web 3 Navigation experiences platformBlockchain powered Navigation GPS gaming mobile app, that combines functionalityfrom popular apps to provide drivers with gaming features, navigation and crypto currencies to produce a new array of experiences for drivers worldwide. Co-Lead Product and Project development efforts with team members. 3-in-a-box style Product team for design and scope.Product Leadership and organization of Product scope, milestones, epics & stories, sprints, sprint reviews, sprint planning and story grooming.Review, assess and refactor current Product plans, scope, timelines and development.Technical team mentorship (CTO, Project Technology Leads, Architect and Sr Engineers)Developing multi-platform Turbo experiences on Android, IOS and Web.Product development using technologies and languages such as blockchain, Solidity, KYC, AML, NFTs, Swift, Kotlin, Javascript, React, Node.JS, NestJS, Datastores, Redis, APIs, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, Navigation, map services and tools.Product cloud architecture & engineering.Focus and improvement on cloud environments (dev, stage, prod), cloud environment security, and code to cloud implementation (code pipelines).Evaluation of cloud technologies, cloud technology vendors and technology cloudcontractsTechnical talent oversight and guidance for the existing team engagement andhiring of future technical Turbo.App team membersActing Turbo spokesperson for Technology, Development and Products

Developing the world’s first news and media DApp on Blockchain. Originally on Ethereum blockchain technologies, we have now migrated to another chain. Ovis is incentivizing and verifying the truth for new organic journalism and news through our newly designed and built DApp platform of truth, transparency and accountability. Leading architecture, product development, engineering, team building and cloud Initiatives to build, deploy and run Ovis’ DApps that disrupt the global news and corporate media industry. The Ovis platform is designed with the community in mind by supporting truth conscious consumers, journalist, fact checkers and editors alike. Responsibilities include:Building Ovis’ tokenized publishing models allowing members of the community to curate and validate content by voting on news story selections, fact accuracy and editorial objectivity.Designing & developing SMART CONTRACTs and digital assets via software development and platform automations for Ovis news and media functionalityLeading DApp dev, apis, data models + feeds, blockchain transactions, ci/cd pipelines, and cloud technologies. Our technology stack and services include Ethereum, Solidity, Truffle, MEAN, Redis, Github, Github actions, Javascript, Typescript, Azure Cloud, DevOps and much more!Ovis’ release of the Curated Registry and “Truth” tokens on Ethereum (and in testing on a 2nd Chain)Ovis' Cloud architecture, engineering & testing. DevOps engineering and code pipeline configuration and testing for automated code pipeline builds and releases. Thought leadership partner to Ovis leaders across department functions including blockchain, fact checking, journalism, leadership, marketing and product.

Transitioned from Replatforming Paypal's Payment Engine to Payments Product Engineering chartered with designing, building and operating Payments services and systems (Java, MicroServices, Node.JS, NoSQL). Leadership and accountability for over 50+ technologists in Engineering, Q/A, & DevOps spanning multiple time zones, US and India. • Lead the charge to streamline and accelerate the agility of payments products & changes worldwide. Achieved substantial productivity improvements for product enhancements including regional or global product changes (improved product changes from +2 weeks to ~1 hour) through the design, build and management of the Global Payments Configuration Engine (aka PCE). • Tasked with improving global payments products availability to industry standard 99.99% availability. Achieved company goals for availability by driving the creation and operations of payments devops to achieve for this goal. (Net benefit to company in the 100’s of millions $$$)• Created, lead and managed payments end to end quality assurance. Built teams, processes and tools (including sponsoring Payments Quality Engine) to boost payment product availability prior to release to industry standards. Achieved company goals for Q/A. Achieved 30+% assurance improvements for end to end quality and 99%+ software assurance prior to go live. (Net benefit to company in the 100’s of millions)• Sponsored and led the charge to scale and replatform the payments product notification services / system. (PNE). Built and achieved industry standards for availability and performance while scaling system to handle tens of millions of transactions per day. Achieved 100% availability, performance and scaling goals for this system and reduced service footprint by 90%+Built Payments Operations processes and teams to handle technical challenges related to all things payments (transaction, fulfillment and settlement)

Drove and contributed to PYPL next generation payment transactional systems creation and operations (aka replatforming C++ Monolithic to Java,, Restful Services, J2EE Web Services, RHEL). Chartered with leading engineering and systems qualities teams in the areas of architecture, engineering (Dev + Infra), data services (SQL, NoSQL, data replication), analytics and service delivery areas. • Awarded Company KTA or Key Talent Award in Technology (2015)• Chartered with improving PYPL payment transactions from +10 ten second transaction durations to sub 3 seconds payment processing duration for total transactions. Achieved the 300%+ objective and decreased system latency and waste by over 7 seconds to the 3 second goal for Paypal customers worldwide. (Net benefit to company in the 100’s of millions)• Chartered with defining, driving and leading disaster recovery, business continuance and continuous availability efforts for office of the CTO in order to provide continual payment services during unexpected outages. Achieved 100% of company goals for these objectives.• Improved PYPL payments transactional system availability to industry parity for financial services industry (Net benefit to company in the 100’s of millions).• Contributed and transitioned teams in PYPL Engineering from Waterfall to Agile Dev practices.• Member of CTO Advisory, assessed and reviewed technology companies for acquisition. Member Akamai Customer Advisory Board (CAB)

Developed strategies, plans, architectures, migrations, code, optimizations and implementations for several Fortune 1000 companies in the areas of application services, enterprise management, virtualization and hybrid cloud technologies. Company list includes Apple, Wells Fargo, Google, ATT, Costco, Schwab, First American, Freeport-McMoran, Toyota, etc.• Achieved highest level of Vmware Professional Services Award: Consultant of the Year 2010 – 2011.• Responsible for architecture, engineering and implementation of Tier 1 Fortune 1000 customer complex applications and infrastructures. Consulting Architect duties included designing conceptual, logical and physical plans and implementations of applications (C++, Java, JavaScript, PowerShell), hybrid clouds, DR/BCP, data center migrations, LAN/WAN/SAN installations and optimizations (e.g. Private cloud, MPLS, .hybrid cloud)• Developed ontologies and meta modeling (data models) for application hosting, data center migrations, enterprise management, service management (strategy, offering, catalog, SLAs), continuous availability, capacity management, virtualization and cloud technologies.• Led, mentored and trained Architects, Senior Consultants and Consultants in virtualization / cloud architecture, project expectations and delivery, customer expectations and management.

Responsible for Network and Systems architecture (including virtualization), engineering, and implementation; operational process improvement leader for all network, server and virtualization environment. • Responsible for architecture and engineering of Enterprise Management systems including availability, performance, asset (CMDB), capacity planning, service level management and IT service management.• Responsible for design and migrating from hub and spoke WAN topology to hybrid cloud and MPLS topology for Freeman family of companies (18 companies).• Transformed operational practices of data center teams by developing key policies, processes, and enforced compliance through standards-driven metrics ITIL v.3. (Change, Incident, Problem, Release, and Request Management)• Architect/Project lead WAN application optimization using Packeteer and Riverbed technologies.

Promoted from Principal Architect to Director “for designing and building the next generation travel ecommerce system” scaled to perform and handle current and future demand. Architected, engineered and/or operated large scale systems and applications for Hotels.com, Interactive Corp, IACT Global network(s), Expedia Inc., Expedia.com, Hotwire.com – Americas, Europe, and Asia.• Engineered and operated system technologies on global scale: WANs, LANs, Load Balancing, GSLB, Application Caching Systems, VPNs, VOIP, WAN Acceleration, Network + Server Virtualization (including Internet Hosting and Payment Systems).• Adopted service-oriented architecture to develop services and architectures for over 40 businesses within IAC and Expedia Inc. (using both Waterfall and Agile Dev Methods)• Championed and created enterprise management systems, using industry tools, automation and system APIs for managing wide and local area network(s), data center(s), server virtualization and storage environments, and contact center environment(s), leading to improved availability and performance of business systems.• Consolidated WAN Optimization tools using Cisco WAAS, Riverbed and Packeteer to one tool (Riverbed) resulting in $1.1M savings for IAC Global.• Planned, Architected, Engineered and tested Expedia’s DR environment including all network, security, virtualized servers and SAN, (SAN Fabric and storage).• Managed company-wide IT Network Security and security services including SOX and PCI compliances (Tier I).

Built, commissioned, managed and operated 9 data centers spread across the United States. (Including WAN/LAN networks and managed services platforms, built Cisco Powered Network from green field)• Managed CAPEX and OPEX budgets; P/L responsibilities for data center, network and managed services; budget forecasting, creation, allocation, expenditure approvals and reporting.• Appointed chairman for multiple Task Forces within company; Network Engineering, Process and Procedure, Change Management, and Technical Training.• Responsible for the network and server engineering/operations of multiple data centers and POPs within the US central region. • Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery planning and architecture.• Managed data security and disaster recovery operations within data centers.• Key Executive Sponsor and lead for establishing and building 3rd-level support for multiple Global Operations Centers (Server, Network, and Security infrastructures).• Designed, implemented and operated multi-site network operations centers; management included networks, servers, SAN (EMC), infrastructure applications and security.• Created SLAs for services, customers and vendors; implemented change management policies and scheduled maintenance procedures for company (internally and customer facing).