New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Currently the founder & CEO of Kadena, the company behind the first holistic blockchain technology stack that fuses the speed of innovation found in public networks with the necessary robustness of enterprise technology. Being around a good team is key. Intelligent, driven, genuine, and curious people are a must - these are personal traits that I like to see in others.
Kadena is the leader in single-stack public and enterprise distributed digital ledger platforms. We offer the first secure, scalable platform capable of bridging the gap between entrepreneurs and enterprises. It runs the same business-first, mission-critical ready smart contract language designed. Kadena helps organizations achieve more with blockchain.
Full time Haskell Engineer within the Emerging Technology group under the Corporate and Investment Bank. Lead Engineer for Emerging Technology's open source Juno project. Juno is a Byzantine Fault Tolerant consensus protocol and sample implementation designed for blockchain and smart contract applications. It began as a fork of Tangaroa, a BFT-hardened version of Raft, and was an experiment to see if we could design a protocol that exhibited high performance and low latency while being as robust as classic Bitcoin-derived technologies. I presented Juno to the Hyper Ledger Foundation in June'16.
Unfortunately I cannot say anything original about my work. This quote from an article in the Financial Times will have to suffice: """ The [Quantitative Analytics Unit] is part of the SEC’s examination programme and is staffed with PhDs who have spent on average more than a decade in the industry building trading systems, statistical analysis and models. It was launched last spring out of a need to understand better and respond to the rapidly changing computer-driven strategies that dominate the modern market and present compliance and regulatory challenges. The staff’s technical knowledge is being shared within the agency and externally, including at recent meetings with the FBI, to highlight risks and potential areas of market manipulation. """ www.ft.com/cms/s/0/53831e32-85b5-11e2-9ee3-00144feabdc0.html
Attended the Winter 2 Batch of Recurse Center (formerly Hacker School). Worked on/learned about a ton of different tools, languages and libraries though I focused mainly on Haskell.
Created a new fractal geometry based approach for analysis of time series data. Developed algorithms and tools to apply and test the approach. These programs and tools have application in a variety of academic and industrial settings and over diverse data sets such as financial data and fetal heart rhythms. Resulting publications are listed below.