Experience

ZeroDev

• Blockchain Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Founder & CEO

  • Oct 2022 - 1 year 3 months

  New York, New York, United States https://zerodev.app YC W23 / a16z CSS



Eternal

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-Founder & CTO

  • Apr 2019 - Oct 2022

  United States Eternal.gg helps content creators monetize through digital collectibles. YC W20. Our investors include Coinbase, Animoca Brands, NFX, founders of Twitch/Crunchyroll/Notion/Kabam/Product Hunt.



Binary Mint

• Founder

  • Jul 2018 - Apr 2019

  San Francisco Bay Area Binary Mint is a blockchain lab delivering products that would enable the wide adoption of crypto technologies. We built Tenfold Protocol (https://blockonomi.com/tenfold-protocol/), which successfully scaled a number of top Ethereum & EOS games. Sold the technology to a Chinese blockchain game studio.



Thunder Token

• Director of DApp Development

  • Mar 2018 - Jul 2018

  San Francisco Bay Area Thunder is a blockchain platform that enables developers to build decentralized applications (dapps) that have unprecedented performance and cost-efficiency. My work involved: - Solution engineering (working with organizations to ship dapps on Thunder) - Product management (ensuring that Thunder is meeting developers' needs) - Technological evangelism (writing & speaking about Thunder) - Ecosystem development (working with partners to integrate Thunder with their… Show more Thunder is a blockchain platform that enables developers to build decentralized applications (dapps) that have unprecedented performance and cost-efficiency. My work involved: - Solution engineering (working with organizations to ship dapps on Thunder) - Product management (ensuring that Thunder is meeting developers' needs) - Technological evangelism (writing & speaking about Thunder) - Ecosystem development (working with partners to integrate Thunder with their projects) Show less



DFINITY

• Switzerland
• Blockchain Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Oct 2017 - Mar 2018

  Palo Alto, CA Worked on infrastructure, p2p networking, and UI.



Pachyderm, Inc.

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Lead Engineer

  • Mar 2016 - Oct 2017

  San Francisco Bay Area I was the second hire at Pachyderm, a YC startup, and played an instrumental role in bringing the product to the market. Along with the team, I designed and built the two core components of Pachyderm: a distributed file system (PFS) and a data pipeline system (PPS).



Gravitational, Inc.

• United States
• Renewables & Environment

• Independent Contractor

  • Aug 2015 - Oct 2015

  San Francisco Bay Area Gravitational is an early­-stage YC startup that's working on a platform that will allow a software vendor to run and manage their software on the infrastructure of their customer's choice, as opposed to traditional SaaS where the software runs in the vendor's data center. I worked on the part of the platform that handles the secure and timely distribution of software packages.



Mesosphere, Inc.

• United States

• Software Engineering Intern

  • May 2015 - Aug 2015

  San Francisco Bay Area Worked on three projects: 1) a system that streams events from a running Mesos cluster into an analytics engine and generates insights; 2) a tool for large-­scale cluster simulation that can be used for testing Mesos applications without having to use a real, costly data center; 3) a tool for injecting (simulated) faults into a cluster and testing if an application performs correctly in the face of faults like network partition, network congestion, hardware failures, etc.



HashiCorp

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Contractor

  • Jan 2015 - May 2015

  San Francisco Bay Area Worked with Armon to design and build a new feature (network tomography; see https://www.consul.io/docs/internals/coordinates.html) for Consul, a popular tool for service discovery, monitoring and configuration. https://consul.io



Cornell University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Assistant

  • Sep 2013 - May 2015

  Ithaca, New York Area Worked on HyperDex, a distributed key-value store akin to Cassandra but has additional features (e.g. search API, strong consistency, transactions) and better performance.

• Tech Blogger

  • Apr 2013 - Dec 2013

  Ithaca, New York Area Writing a post for The Sun every other week: http://cornellsun.com/blog/category/blogs/tech/



Backslash

• Retail Apparel and Fashion

• Resident Troll

  • Dec 2014 - Jan 2015

  Palo Alto Chilled with the two co-founders in their apartment. Beat them in chess 100+ times. Wrote some code.



upthere

• United Kingdom
• Retail

• Software Engineering Intern on the Core Team

  • May 2014 - Aug 2014

  Palo Alto, CA Worked on a data store that's meant to scale to petabytes. Specifically, I 1) developed a tool for snapshotting files, 2) found ways to reduce entropy in the system, and 3) implemented a mechanism for intelligently distributing workload among servers, resulting in a ~30% reduction in read latency.



CoreOS, Inc

• United States
• Events Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Independent Contractor

  • Oct 2013 - Dec 2013

  Palo Alto, California Worked on the Go binding for etcd, a distributed key-value store.



Nebula, Inc.

• United States
• Computer Hardware Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Engineering Intern

  • May 2013 - Aug 2013

  Mountain View, CA Built a Cassandra-based alternative API backend for Glance, a component of OpenStack. Integrated Zipkin, a distributed tracing system, into our test suite. Used Python, Cassandra, Pycassa, OpenStack, Zipkin, etc. The internship was part of the KPCB Engineering Fellows program.



Cornell ACM Programming Team

• Member

  • Sep 2012 - May 2013

  Ithaca, New York Area Participated in the annual ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM-ICPC). My team won the sixth or seventh place in the Greater New York region.



Sonicpanther

• United States
• Software Development

• Web Developer (intern)

  • Dec 2012 - Mar 2013

  San Francisco, California Added geospatial indexing to the backend, using a combination of Node, Express, Mongoose, and MongoDB. Also built the frontend for our internal analytics dashboard using Backbone.js and jQuery.



Yorango

• United States
• Real Estate

• Lead Backend Developer

  • Dec 2012 - Mar 2013

  Ithaca, NY Was the lead developer of a small team of four. Built a property management system for landlords to manage their properties and communicate with lessees. Used Python, Django, MySQL, etc.



Legal Information Institute

• United States
• Legal Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Associate Systems Administrator

  • Sep 2012 - Oct 2012

  Ithaca, New York Area Worked with the Systems Administrator to build and maintain cloud-based Linux servers.



Cornell Computer Reuse Association

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations

• Member

  • Aug 2012 - Oct 2012

  Ithaca, New York Area Collected and refurbished computers, which were donated to community centers, schools, and other organizations.