I've been working as a software engineer for over twenty years, specializing in highly scalable web services and applications. I'm especially interested in blockchain technology and smart contracts. In addition to my work, I'm passionate about philosophy and the performing arts.
I was head of solutions architecture for the Amazon Managed Blockchain service, which helps customers deploy their blockchain networks on Hyperledger Fabric and Ethereum more quickly, with less management overhead. In addition to meeting regularly with customers to help them succeed on our service, I created and oversaw technical content and other training materials for Amazon Managed Blockchain, and I regularly gave workshops to customers and other AWS employees on this material. One recent workshop I buil
Blockscale LLC provided highly-available, reliable, and scalable blockchain services for crypto projects. Our most recent success was helping to launch and maintain the network infrastructure for Tezos project. We set up and maintained nodes in the Tezos network and a secure infrastructure for the Tezos Foundation's block producers or bakers. Blockscale was eventually contracted to join Coinbase in exchange for pre-IPO equity in Coinbase. My co-founder, Luke, and I both received offers to join Coinbase and