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EXPERIENCE

BITGO | WBTC/DeFi/ETH Engineering Manager

Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Palo Alto, CA

•Built 3 teams from the ground up over 2 years in high-impact areas: Ethereum, WBTC, DeFi

•Hired, training and managed 15 direct reports over last 2 years

•Expanded contractor capability from 5 to 25 contractors for coins onboarding capacity

•Notable team achievements: finalizing WBTC, onboarding EIP-1559, re-building internal Eth node plumbing and MetaMask Institutional wallet integration.

BITGO | Senior Blockchain Engineer

June 2018 - Jan 2021 | Palo Alto, CA

•Built and maintained WBTC (link) - $0 to $15 billion BTC AUC in 3 years

•Onboarding coins and tokens into BitGo internal systems

•Created an internal triage model to enhance engineering ticketing - drove down internal tickets to 20% after 3 months

•Proposed and built system for labelling institutional addresses which is now used industry-wide

BTIG | Senior Vice President - Technology

Apr 2017 – Mar 2018 | San Francisco, CA

•Team lead for clearing and settlement end of day process team

•Mentored junior developers, design for future proejcts

•Expansion, maintenance and creation of Future OMS, Fx and OMS systems

BEACONFIRE RED | Senior Software Engineer

Aug 2013 - Apr 2017 | Arlington, VA

•Non-profit website design consultancy working with clients such as Feeding America and American Lung Association

•Notable team achievements: Ice Bucket Challenge for ALS Association; rebuilding all of American College of Cardiology training tools; redesign/rebuild of State of the Air app (SOTA)

AGENCYQ | Web Developer

Aug 2012 - Aug 2013 | Washington, DC

• Marketing agency - acted as a developer building CMS implementations

PROJECTS

PAWN

Jan 2020 – May 2020

Worked with two former crypto-institutional founders to capitalize on emerging NFT loan market. Built a prototype of a loan product in solidity after having lead design and ideation. Separated from new startup to stay at BitGo, where Pawn went on to raise $3.5 million.

EDUCATION

GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY | BS in Computer Science | Graduated 2006

TECHNOLOGIES

EXPERT

Ethereum • Bitcoin • Solidity • AngularJS • JavaScript/TypeScript • SQL • NodeJS • Mongo • HTML • Linux • C#

KNOWLEDGEABLE

React • Kubernetes • Docker • Helm • Phone dev (Native & WebKit)