Work Experience
DAO DAO
Co-Founder and Maintainer
2022 +
- Developed flagship, open source, modular DAO governance platform in the Cosmos using Rust.
- Built and scaled indexer, frontend (TypeScript + Next), and other services to support 12+ blockchains, 6k+ DAOs, 23k+ proposals, 517k+ votes, and 41k+ unique voters, together managing up to $400M worth of assets on-chain.
- Bootstrapped with funds/grants from deployments and custom smart contracts modules, totaling over $1M, and managed a small international team of open source contributors.
- Learned Helm, K8s, Ansible, and Pulumi to orchestrate all infrastructure, deploying 400+ Pulumi resources to CloudFlare and DigitalOcean.
- Built in-house LLM + RAG chatbot using Claude—with access to docs and smart contract schemas to assist users in configuring DAOs and using the platform—served through Telegram and Discord bots.
Layer Labs
Principal Engineer
2024 – 2025
- Lead engineer on the product team building demo apps for novel WASM-based AVS infrastructure (WAVS).
- Maintained partner relationships and fielded inbound to discover and iterate on technical priorities.
- Performed recurring quality assurance on technical docs and repo templates in preparation for testnet launch.
DAO Up!
Co-Founder
2022
- Developed Kickstarter-like web3-native community fundraising.
- Enabled 10+ campaigns to raise over $100k in early testing.
- Built smart contracts in Rust and a TypeScript Next.js frontend.
GitHub Education
Software Engineering Intern
2020
- Improved UI and tooling for Rails service, doubling the number of customers that can be onboarded per month.
- Designed/implemented extensible data pipeline, enabling analysis of data for the first time to improve product experience.
- Integrated ML into pipeline, removing need to hire 10+ full time contractors for manual customer onboarding.