Dinny Joackson

Forward Deployed Engineer AI & blockchain

Des Moines Metropolitan Area

About

Senior Web3 engineer with 8+ years building production blockchain infrastructure across L1/L2/L3 protocols, decentralized systems, and on-chain application architecture. Over the past two years, extended into AI/LLM integration RAG pipelines, autonomous agent systems, and confidential edge compute as the intersection of on-chain logic and AI infrastructure became a real engineering problem worth solving.

Experience

  • Forward Deployed Engineer at Circle
    Jan 2026 - Present · 6 mos

    Evaluated DeFi protocols, stablecoin models, and smart contract ecosystems for product viability, security considerations, and operational effectiveness while building and prototyping AI-powered solutions using LLMs, LangChain, vector databases, and generative AI frameworks to support analytics, automation, and product workflows. Partnered with engineers and stakeholders to validate concepts, iterate quickly, and deliver solutions in fast-moving, ambiguous environments. Translated complex blockchain and AI architectures into actionable insights for executives, investors, clients, and cross-functional teams, while developing governance frameworks, technical documentation, and reusable playbooks to support adoption, scalability, and operational execution across product, protocol, and AI initiatives.

  • Pagarba Solutions (7 yrs 3 mos)
    • Lead AI/ML blockchain architect
      Oct 2021 - Dec 2025 · 4 yrs 3 mos

      Architect decentralized compute grid to run large language models powered by crypto-economic incentives and Rust core Design protocols and Byzantine fault tolerant schemes enabling private and securely coordinated model training Optimize Tensorflow model efficiency by 65% via blockchain data verification techniques

    • Blockchain full-stack engineer
      Oct 2018 - Oct 2021 · 3 yrs 1 mo

      Led team building enterprise AI SaaS leveraging RustAI and confidential compute Reduced infrastructure costs from $6000 to $2000 per month via Kubernetes on blockchain Directed end-to-end development of ChainLink blockchain oracles

  • Blockchain Developer at Stellar
    Apr 2017 - Jan 2019 · 1 yr 10 mos

    Smart Contract development with c++, Golang SDK, smart contracts for lottery analysis voting game, Created a marketplace with solidity Developed features in stellar core Frontend development with react Kubernetes and docker and AWS deployments Production devops toubleshooting Smart contract and blockchain Code Reviews Mocha smart contract testing

  • Blockchain Developer at JPMorgan Chase & Co.
    May 2016 - May 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo

    Contributed/contributing to open-source projects in the Ethereum , Bitcoin and r3 corda and Qtum space