Created and founded a research lab working on developer experience problems in the Terra blockchain and Cosmos ecosystems. We took a design approach to addressing the issue of poor DevX in Web3 in general, which prompted us to work on creating a new programming language (CWScript), visual and interactive debugging interface (CWSimulate), engineering a new VM for a popular smart contract platform (CosmWasm) to run in a web browser with instrumentation and tracing, adding support for a new… Show more Created and founded a research lab working on developer experience problems in the Terra blockchain and Cosmos ecosystems. We took a design approach to addressing the issue of poor DevX in Web3 in general, which prompted us to work on creating a new programming language (CWScript), visual and interactive debugging interface (CWSimulate), engineering a new VM for a popular smart contract platform (CosmWasm) to run in a web browser with instrumentation and tracing, adding support for a new several experimental language runtimes to CosmWasm, etc. Show less

Worked on adding CosmWasm-related smart contract tools, including CWScript (programming language) and CWSimulate (debugger) to the Cosmology suite of blockchain developer products. Contributed to new company strategy and vision regarding future projects.

Wrote technical documentation and organized the documentation team, interfaced with the early community and managed the first grants program, authored Terra's client SDKs for JavaScript / Python, and LocalTerra testing environment, and Terra observer. Created educational content and gave instruction on smart contract development to the first teams developing on Terra, including Jump engineers.

A Blockchain focused on enabling a marketplace for secure and privacy preserving computation for ML researchers and large firms. Pioneered the experimental "smart policy" and created a language and VM based on CPython called Centrifuge for defining smart policies, written in C.

Designed and created the website uxrg.com, performed various server administration tasks as needed, and lead new product conceptualization and developed prototypes for mobile apps using React Native. Developed a blockchain carbon credits concept for Climate.Exchange with UrbanX in communications with California Air Resources Board.