Scott Tsai

Co-Founder at PointSwap
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Location
TW
Languages
  • English Native or bilingual proficiency
  • Mandarin Native or bilingual proficiency
  • Taiwanese Native or bilingual proficiency

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Experience

    • Blockchain Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Co-Founder
      • Sep 2022 - Present
    • Software Development
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Co-Founder
      • Sep 2021 - Present
    • United States
    • Software Development
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Head of Chain Engineering
      • Sep 2018 - Aug 2020

      Lead the Core, Platform, and DevOps team to deliver a brand new consensus protocol on the ThunderCore blockchain. Lead and helped launch to Defi projects on the platform securing over 100M USD. The chain has been running without security incident since 2018. Lead the Core, Platform, and DevOps team to deliver a brand new consensus protocol on the ThunderCore blockchain. Lead and helped launch to Defi projects on the platform securing over 100M USD. The chain has been running without security incident since 2018.

    • United States
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • Software Developer
      • Mar 2015 - Oct 2018

      Implemented firmware programming and source level debugging support for an ARM Cortex-M microcontroller by modifying and integrating open source software packages. Delivered a command line debugger utility that could autodetect the specific chip used and drive the open source OpenOCD utility through its "TCL RPC" interface. Implemented firmware programming and source level debugging support for an ARM Cortex-M microcontroller by modifying and integrating open source software packages. Delivered a command line debugger utility that could autodetect the specific chip used and drive the open source OpenOCD utility through its "TCL RPC" interface.

    • Firmware Developer
      • Jan 2014 - Jan 2015

      JackPair is a box that plugins into the standard 3.5mm headphone jack of any mobile phone and encrypts voice calls to protect against wiretapping. Responsible for hardware design review, hardware bring-up, firmware, and manufacturing test plan development. JackPair is a box that plugins into the standard 3.5mm headphone jack of any mobile phone and encrypts voice calls to protect against wiretapping. Responsible for hardware design review, hardware bring-up, firmware, and manufacturing test plan development.

    • United States
    • Computer Networking
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Software Developer
      • Mar 2010 - Mar 2012

      Mobile P2P Networking Stack, Zero configuration VPN. Mobile P2P Networking Stack, Zero configuration VPN.

    • Independent Consultant
      • Jul 2009 - Oct 2009

      Embedded Linux training and consulting on device drivers and system software for a smartphone project. Embedded Linux training and consulting on device drivers and system software for a smartphone project.

    • Organizer
      • May 2009 - Jun 2009

      Helped organize and provide realtime English to Mandarin translation at the FreedomHEC Taipei 2009 conference: http://lwn.net/Articles/337314/ Helped organize and provide realtime English to Mandarin translation at the FreedomHEC Taipei 2009 conference: http://lwn.net/Articles/337314/

    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Set-Top Box Developer
      • Sep 2006 - Dec 2008

      Set-Top Box Device Drivers, DVR Engine with Time Shift Buffer, JVM Integration, Embedded Linux development support, Manufacturing Test software support. Linux platform technical lead for an MHP set-top-box with two DVB-C and two DVB-T tuners at Motorola Taiwan Technology Center. Part time Mercurial, TWiki, Trac server administration. Set-Top Box Device Drivers, DVR Engine with Time Shift Buffer, JVM Integration, Embedded Linux development support, Manufacturing Test software support. Linux platform technical lead for an MHP set-top-box with two DVB-C and two DVB-T tuners at Motorola Taiwan Technology Center. Part time Mercurial, TWiki, Trac server administration.

    • Ukraine
    • E-Learning Providers
    • Software Developer
      • Jan 2006 - Jul 2006

      IPMI Server monitoring software and BIOS update utilities under Linux. Contributed some patches to the 'flashrom' utility in coreboot (a.k.a. LinuxBIOS). IPMI Server monitoring software and BIOS update utilities under Linux. Contributed some patches to the 'flashrom' utility in coreboot (a.k.a. LinuxBIOS).

    • Computer Hardware Manufacturing
    • 300 - 400 Employee
    • Firmware Developer
      • Apr 2003 - Apr 2004

      LCDTV firmware on the "count your stack use by the byte" 8051 microcontroller beloved by Taiwanese engineers. Contact window for the German customer in that ODM project. LCD analyzer and TV Signal Generator automation. Just-in-time, next to the assembly line firmware update support -- lots of fun. Collaborated with Microsoft's eHOME department on an exploratory hardware project that combined a TV with a Set-Top Box. My manager was the (in)famous computer virus author CIH, learned a lot about the x86 MMU, protected mode and embedded Linux tricks from him.

Education

  • Soochow University, Taiwan
    BA, Business Administration
    2005 - 2010
  • Chih Jen Vocational School
    High School
    2000 - 2001
  • HSNU
    1998 - 2000

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