Career Timeline
Working in Crypto and Tech
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 believe in Ethereum, but bought into the crowdsale b/c everyone
around me was into it so figured maybe I was wrong.. 😂
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
Worked with a YC EdTech company, modified and improved their AI model,
and website (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)
Brought in as Lead for a venture studio startup
Built beautiful consumer facing app to buy fractionalized and
tokenized real estate
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
Point person on their external crypto relationships
The Travel + Code + Community Era
late 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)
Notable Other Experience in:
Arweave Ecosystem, NFTs,
Air Assault Qualified
Comparative Legal Jurisdiction (securities), Key Mgmt/identity
History (econ, legal, geopolitical), German
Find Me:
✉️ elliott[at]tothemoon[dot]email
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