Timeline

The Bootstrap Era

2013-2014

After College (Finance, minor: Math), drove out to Silicon Valley to do something in bitcoin

BD and Research contracting, eventually working at a young crypto startup, Cobalt, directly with founders

Promoted to BD for all bitcoin/crypto companies

The Close-to-Product Era

2015-2018

Moved into the Cryptocastle, first or second non-Augur person to do so

Didn't think Ethereum would amount to much, but bought into the crowdsale b/c everyone around me was into it so figured maybe I was wrong.. fortunately, I was.

Learned to code to be closer to product decisions. Started with iOS, expanded eventually to Python, Solidity, Javascript, etc

Started full time consulting-- picked up (mostly crypto) consulting gigs from network, word of mouth, and crypto events

Started working consistently for a crypto hedge fund as their technical backend

The Gryphon Trading Era

2019-2021

Used Gryphon for the hedge fund's backend, decided with the architect of Gryphon that we could make a good business out of implementing it as a backend for more than just one fund

Gryphon has had billions of dollars run through it, making it one of the most stable and lossless solutions out there

The backend is a trading engine that uses API wrappers to connect to crypto exchanges. It also allows for custom strategies to be built too.

Our business set up the trading backend and built any custom wrappers the client required, and translated any strategies they had from concept to code.

Worked with funds worth from $4M to $1 Billion

The Covid Era

2020-2021

Went to ETHDenver, fantastic time, great people, totally got Coronavirus'ed. Worth it.

Worked with a YC EdTech company, modified and improved their AI models, and website (built in Django)

Moved Homebase from SF to Austin, TX 🌞

Hedge Fund / fintech consulting, including with Hummingbot, Gryphon, and DeFi

The Securities Era

2021-2022

Led team of 3-6 to create a fractionalized real estate token

Lead Blockchain Eng, built smart contracts, integrations, everything that need be done

Extensive work with lawyers and securities law

No shortage of technical problems solved

When weekends weren't full took on consulting work (including with Lit Protocol)

Started, independently, going deep on Arweave!

Brought in as Lead for a venture studio startup

Built beautiful consumer facing app to buy fractionalized and tokenized real estate using an ETH smart contract

Deep experience in SEC private offering regs, hiring, tokenizing, up/downsides of alt networks, etc

The Gaming Era

2022-2023

Tapped to help Earn Alliance and Last Remains build web3 gaming NFTs

Strategic advisory and smart contract consulting

Fully integrated with their whole team, CEO and about 10-15 people

Point person on their external crypto relationships

The Travel + Code + Community Era

2023-2024

Travelled in Europe + Argentina

Building on personal projects

Trading

Run/Co-Run 2 Austin Meetups, DeFi Austin (more discussions) and Ethereum Austin (largest ETH meetup in Austin)

Picking up small contracts occasionally