"With a decade of experience in the tech industry, I've led teams to develop cutting-edge solutions that have transformed businesses. My passion lies in leveraging cryptography, AI, and machine learning to solve complex problems and drive innovation."
Skills
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning
- Cloud Computing
- DevOps
- Agile Methodologies
- Strategic Planning
- Team Leadership
- Product Development
- Data Analytics
- Distributed Systems
- Cybersecurity
Achivements
Blackbelt in Zen Shotokai Karate
Education
University of South Carolina
BS Computer Science
Summa Cum Laude
Programming Languages
- C++
- Go
- Python
- SQL
- Rust
- Bash
- Swift
- Objective-C
- Elixir
- Java
- Mojo
- CUDA
- Solidity
- Nix
Tools, Libraries, Frameworks, Etc..
- Postgres
- Redis
- PyTourch
- TensorFlow
- Scikit-learn
- ROCm
- Metal
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- Helm
- ElasticSearch
- Celery
- RabbitMQ
- ZeroMQ
- MQTT
- Flask
- FastAPI
- Nginx
- Terraform
- Ansible
- AWS
- GCP
- GKE
- EKS
- Temporal
- Prometheus
- Datadog
- Grafana
- Kafka
- EVM
- Socket.IO
- WebSockets
- JSON
- REST
- GraphQL
- JSON-RPC
- Protobuf
- Eventlet/Gevent
- SNS
- FCM
- SQS
- DynamoDB
- MongoDB
- VectorDB
Experience
QWERKY AI Inc.
Chief Technology Officer
2025 - Present
- Developed key pending patents for Large Language Models (LLM) with CUDA implementation
- Exploring the optimization of AI/ML models and practical implementation of bleeding-edge AI/ML architectures like MambaByte and Byte-Patch Transformers
- Spearheading the company's technology roadmap and technical design processes
MerkleRoot
Chief Technology Officer
2024 - Present
- Managed a team of 20+ international developers and engineers
- Led teams through the successful development and launch of the company's flagship products
- Spearheaded the adoption of cutting-edge blockchain technologies and cryptography
- Key stakeholder in the company's strategic direction and transition away from staff augmentation
- Reduced the company down to a skeleton crew after the loss of our largest client
- Developed a solidity decompiler in Go and Rust that was a key feature in our company's product Hexman
- Optimized Solidity codebases and EVM instruction sets, reducing gas fees by 30% and reducing bytecode size by 50%
- Performed a security audit on a client's smart contract, identifying and fixing 5 critical valnerabilites and major compiler and gas inefficiencies
VP of Architecture
2022 - 2024
- Led technical strategy and architecture across all major client projects
- Increased client allocation and revenue by 300% in 1 year
- Created the process for technical screenings and mentorship within the company
- Led hiring, conducted technical interviews, code reviews, and mentored developers
- Grew team from 9 to 20+ engineers in 1 year
- Spearheaded the adoption of asdf and Nix for developemnt and deployment, reducing environment setup time by 25%
- Developed white papers and technical design documentation and established best pratices for the company
- The primary architect for the company's main client, Forte
Forte
Architect
2022 - 2024
- Led 8 teams of 5-7 engineers to deliver a new blockchain platform for the gaming industry focusing on developer experience and a 1 million CCU scale
- Architected Platform X and the Forte Protocol with a focus on developer experience and scalability
- Reduced on-chain gas and storage costs by 75% through a byte-level metadata standard, enabling the storage of 1+ million JSON NFTs on Ethereum
- Designed a multi-tenant, multi-region, and multi-layered architecture for Platform 2.0 with the core abstractions in the Blockchain Layer and the Orchestration Layer
- Built Go services for Platform 2.0's core, including the Bridge, Orcestration, and API Layers
- Scaled Platform 2.0 Go-Ethereum and Cosmos private chains to 10,000+ transactions per second
- Built Go microservices and programming language SDKs for the platform
- Conducted interviews for senior leadership and directors of engineering
- Reduced the platform's technical debt by 50%
First Foundry
Senior Software Engineer III
2021 - 2022
- Led a 3 member research team under the Forte CTO to explore new technologies and architectures
- Architected and Built a high throughput NFT Bridge handling 1000+ transactions per second
- Built microservices in Elixir/Phoenix, Rust, Python for the Forte Platform, integrating Ethereum, Zero Knowledge Proof, and Solana blockchain technologies
- Created a robust email and notification system in Elixir with Erlang/OTP, delivering 1000+ emails per second and 10,000+ notifications per second
52 Inc.
Partner & Senior Software Engineer
2015 - 2022
- Managed a small team of 5-9 developers, project managers, and designers
- Mobile iOS app development in Swift and Objective-C
- Brought 15+ apps and platforms into production
- Rescued 5+ projects reducing technical debt and increasing performance
- Rescued and scaled a NodeJS messaging server to support from 100 request per second (rps) to 1000+ rps for major hospital systems
- Designed, migrated, and maintained a Kubernetes Cluster of Python Microservices that tracked active locations of over 1000+ devices for an emergency response company
- Created document reading and searching apps for the insurance industry in Swift and Objective-C
- Implemented a price predicting model for resorts, and crypto day trading in Tensorflow
- Built Marketplace, Healthcare, Live Streaming, and Music Platform Backends and APIs in Python, Java, and C++ leveraging technologies like Postgres, Flask, MongoDB, HLS, OpenCV, ElasticSearch, Redis, RabbitMQ, Celery, Docker, and More
- Ran supervised learning models like kNN on production platform data to recommend posts/listings/products to users