Solving fragmentation of blockchain networks with an economically secure, low latency interoperability protocol. Built for seamless developer experience across scaling solutions.

Built Gauntlet's 1st on-chain protocol: Aera Finance. Risk aware, capital efficient treasury management solution for DAOs. Audited by Spearbit. Would have prevented the Terra collapse.

Code owner on production contracts for stablecoin and phone number ownership protocols. Orchestrated DAO governance with security oriented contract release process leveraging OpenZeppelin audits and Certora formal verification.

Built first production implementation of Coinbase Rosetta, an abstraction used for exchange accounting, low level tracing of value transfer, and high security offline staking services for Coinbase Custody customers.

Implemented Proof of Stake validator features and slashing conditions, optimized oracle exchange rate reporting for stablecoin protocol, and contributed to privacy preserving enhancements to proof of phone number ownership protocol.

Taught full-credit course (2x) in the Center for Computational Finance and Economic Systems (CoFES) alongside Professor Manolo Sanchez and Topl founder / CTO James Aman.

Founded student organization focused on blockchain education, research, development and evangelism. Led 50+ members in maintaining a newsletter, organizing workshops, and meeting with industry professionals. Repeat host of Houston Ethereum Meetup.

Developed the IBM Blockchain Starter Kit: an open-source bootstrap tool for applications on Hyperledger. Includes build, test, deploy framework for goLang and NodeJS. Shipped a CLI for vastly improved developer experience.

Built the first Token Curated Registry (TCR) for the adChain registry, a whitelist of trusted advertisers for consumption by token holding web publishers. Shipped a generic ERC20 voting standard with partial locking and commit reveal (PLCR) scheme.

Worked on early smart contract prototypes like Proof of Physical Address: an automated protocol for verifying mailing address ownership with secrets sent via snail mail.