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I'm an engineer and physicist turned Web3 builder. Experienced in digital asset custody, market infrastructure, and blockchain technology. Currently shaping the future of digital assets at Nasdaq.

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Professional Experience

Senior Specialist, Site Reliability Engineer - Nasdaq
March 2023 - Present

Manage an AWS cloud environment participating in a multi-party computation (MPC) signing infrastructure.

Oversee and coordinate deployments to production and UAT environments utilizing CI/CD practices (GitLab).

Conduct in-depth troubleshooting by analyzing Kubernetes pods in K9s, reviewing Grafana logs.

Senior Associate, Custody Operations - Gemini
January 2020 - February 2023

Responsible for the management of all digital assets on the Gemini exchange and segregated Custody product (>$30BN in May, 2021).

Operation and management of a fleet of Hardware Security Modules (HSMs). Coordinated and participated in key cloning ceremonies for HSMs.

Education

MS, Applied Physics - New Jersey Institute of Technology
Graduated 2019

NSF Next Generation of Geospace Grant

BS, Electrical & Computer Engineering Technology - NJIT
Graduated 2017

Technical Skills

AWSKubernetesCI/CDPythonLinuxGitDockerCybersecurityBlockchain

Projects

Tokenized Equities Platform Prototype

A web application prototype demonstrating management of tokenized equities.

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