- Founded and led a blockchain infrastructure firm specializing in validator operations and distributed systems.
- Designed and automated multi-chain validator deployments and wrote comprehensive NodeOps runbooks.
- Led team of three engineers delivering enterprise-grade validator infrastructure for clients.
Experience
Highlights from recent roles
- Operated a 100+ GPU Zero-Knowledge prover with low-latency fulfillment across geographic regions.
- Deployed L1/L2 validators across various chains; authored comprehensive incident response runbooks.
- Engineered observability pipelines (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki) for real-time telemetry, peer health monitoring, block production latency, and slashing-risk detection.
- Implemented hardened production environments with bastion-only access, key isolation, automated failover, and zero-downtime migrations aligned with SRE best practices.
- Designed and developed a web-based Python IDE enabling one-click transition from local to cloud compute through a browser-based SSH terminal powered by Go's concurrency mechanisms and WebSockets.
- Pitched MVP to VCs and applied to Y Combinator.
- Replaced Ruby on Rails login/signup with OAuth 2.0 Java microservices, migrating 200,000+ users and onboarding developers to the new APIs.
- Integrated multi-billion dollar acquisitions (Deliverr, Shopify Logistics) for a unified OAuth experience, saving $250,000 from the external OAuth vendor.
- Authored technical documentation and security reviews; handled on-call using Grafana, Datadog, and Sumo Logic.
- Built containerized AWS Java applications using Docker and Kubernetes for tokenized assets.
- Designed and deployed a Bitcoin hashrate monitoring system with difficulty, network fees, and key metrics via Coin Metrics' API.
Skills
Languages & frameworks
Java
Python
Go
C / C++
Rust
TypeScript
JavaScript
C#
Ruby
R
Julia
React
Next.js
Spring Boot
Kubernetes
Docker
AWS / S3
OAuth 2.0 & OIDC
Prometheus
Grafana
Loki
PostgreSQL
GraphQL
nginx
WebSockets
PyTorch
TensorFlow
RBAC
Education
2017 – 2021
University of California, Berkeley
B.A. Data Science & B.A. Political Economy · GPA 3.24