Projects / Work
Bolt Mobility
Co-founded by eight-time Olympic Gold Medalist Usain Bolt, BOLT Mobility aimed to transform the way people move and experience their communities. Through partnerships with municipalities and local ownership, Bolt worked to infrastructure and thoughtfully integrating sustainable and accessible transportation options. I was hired as CTO to address key technical challenges of building a fleet of mobile IOT devices.
Stara - Space data made easy
Stara’s mission is to provide space infrastructure as a service by launching an affordable solution for data backhaul in low earth orbit. We’ve launched two satellites in orbit and have begun development on the most advanced radio designed for space-to-space mesh networking. We built an incredibly talented team comprised of former SpaceX, Spire, Y-Combinator, and Hyperloop One veterans.
As founder and CEO, I managed a 7 figure budget, hired the core team, designed our own spacecraft in-house, and directed the NOOR-1 mission which deployed 2 satellites with Rocket Lab.
Rivetz
The goal of Rivetz was to assert within blockchain transactions that “this device, in this condition, following these rules, made this transaction”. Rivetz offered a convenient interface for developers who want to secure their applications using a Trusted Execution Environment or Secure Enclave chip. It has worked with Telefonica to create a multi-sig strategy between SIM chip and a phone’s secure enclave.
Responsibilities: System design, NIST-compliant infrastructure setup, implementing key management service, integration with phone providers.
SXL.cn / Strikingly
Strikingly is a website builder that allows people to build portfolios, blogs, ecommerce websites, and personal websites easily without ever writing code. Because Strikingly powers millions of websites across the world, every problem it solves has to be systematized to scale.
Responsibilities:
- Built and released automatic HTTPS for user sites
- Reduced server costs by 35% with high-availability caching
- Improved SEO and page-speed for millions of sites
- Designed and deployed CDN infrastructure in Japan, USA, and Europe
- Presented at RubyConf China 2017
EOS Asia
The goal of EOS is to be the most powerful infrastructure for decentralized applications. EOS Asia proposed and was accepted to act as core block producer for EOS.
Responsibilities: Mentorship, tutorials, smart-contract development, infrastructure challenges.
Braingate / Mojotech
Braingate allows tetraplegic patients to control computers and robotic arms with their thoughts. My responsibility was working with the team to design an electronic/software architecture that allowed components to communicate in a way that’s resilient, simple to program new experiments on, facilitates diagnostics, and allows the patient to be mobile.
Responsibilities: System design, documentation, power budget models, component procurement, network analysis, prototyping with Clojure.
Countr / Mojotech
Countr is an online marketplace where people shop, accrue a score for buying and sharing, and use that score to get discounts. Built as a single page application using React, Redux, and Webpack.
Nomad Pass
NomadPass is a platform that allows digital nomads to find high quality locations and meet fellow traveling professionals. My role was lead developer, helping stakeholders prioritize against technical realities, mentoring developers, and building the product from scratch.
Teespring
Teespring is a platform where you can easily create and sell custom apparel. During my time there, the platform made $750,000/month with millions of orders.
Key learnings: Git proficiency, data replication and sharding, SQL optimization, microservices architecture, Redis/Sidekiq queue management, memory profiling, deployment strategies, HTTP caching.
Firehose Project
The Firehose project is an educational program that helps students go from beginner to employable developers. Students would come with questions about technical details, career advice, and architectural suggestions.
Responsibilities: Mentoring students, code reviewing, curriculum planning.