Experience

Lupex

• France
• Retail
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-founder, CTO

  • Apr 2018 - Present

  Los Angeles, California, United States Built a cryptocurrency exchange including a custom order book and secure systems that speak various blockchains, hot wallets, deposit and withdrawal tracking, sweeps and cold storage. Also built crowdsourced cryptocurrency newsfeed, liquidity bots and futures system. Primarily a consulting vehicle at present. * Implemented erc20 contracts securing $7,000,000 * Launched AMM token swap with custom staking and liquidity mining. * Set up DAO voting, vesting mechanisms executing… Show more Built a cryptocurrency exchange including a custom order book and secure systems that speak various blockchains, hot wallets, deposit and withdrawal tracking, sweeps and cold storage. Also built crowdsourced cryptocurrency newsfeed, liquidity bots and futures system. Primarily a consulting vehicle at present. * Implemented erc20 contracts securing $7,000,000 * Launched AMM token swap with custom staking and liquidity mining. * Set up DAO voting, vesting mechanisms executing arbitrary on-chain EVM code. * Launched custom NFT contracts with custom gas optimizations and tiered merkle whitelist mechanims. * Prototyped various web3 gaming / realtime world concepts. * Authored price oracles and competitive trading bots. * Solidity smart contract security audits * Designed cross-chain account abstraction system built on Gnosis Safe and CCTP Show less



Brave Software

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Principal Engineer

  • Jul 2019 - Nov 2020

  San Francisco Bay Area BAT settlement engineering, antifraud, launched Brave News, a privacy-preserving algo newsfeed.



Mozilla

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Principal Engineer

  • Apr 2017 - Apr 2018

  Mountain View, California, United States



Pocket™

• Computer Hardware Manufacturing

• Principal Engineer

  • Jul 2015 - Apr 2018

  San Francisco Bay Area (Acquired by Mozilla 2/2017) I built Pocket's content recommendation, search and newsfeed systems. Handled all aspects from initial experimentation to product launch. Work invloved: recommendation engines, ML, deep content analysis, collaborative filtering, NLP, entity extraction, content graphing, ranking algorithms, create algorithmic newsfeed & associated ranking.



vidIQ

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-founder, CTO

  • Oct 2011 - Jan 2015

  San Francisco Bay Area Built Mark Cuban backed vidIQ from the ground up. Created systems to collect and analyze YouTube data, later hired and managed high output teams to scale our variety of YouTube products.



Viddler

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Technical Architect

  • Feb 2007 - Nov 2011

  Built architecture from first server to a global high volume Internet architecture spanning several datacenters. Lead all scaling, security, infrastructure, efforts scaling the site to 5000 requests per second. Also authored scalable multi-format video transcoders.



Rackspace

• Netherlands

• Product Engineer

  • 2005 - 2007

  Built the prototypes that turned into Rackspace Cloud Built security tools using trust metrics that controlled global IP blackholing at Rackspce Created an embedded firewall device to mirror the PIX command set in iptables



PSU Physics Research Network

• Reserach Network Engineer

  • Jan 2003 - Jan 2005

  Linux and Solaris Administration for core services in a classic UNIX network environment, research tools for ~500 accounts, software for all of PSU physics research.



San Diego Supercomputer Center

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Research Programmer IV

  • 2005 - 2005

  La Jolla, CA Built Oceanographic and meteorological data collection systems aboard R/V Melville . Operated various sonars and acoustic doppler current profilers including Seabeam 2000 multibeam bathymetric sonar, Kundsen Echosounders, launched XBTs, Maintained C-band and Immarsat satellite links.