Timeline#
2025 - now · Head of Applied Product · Source Network
- Building edge-first decentralized data infrastructure (DefraDB)
- Peer-to-peer database with offline-first sync and CRDT-based conflict resolution
2025 · VP of Product · Ondo Finance
- Shipped Ondo Global Markets — 100+ tokenized stocks/ETFs
- Joined post-acquisition of Strangelove
2022 - 2025 · Founder · Galileo Fund
- Raised and deployed $15M+ across 23+ investments
- Portfolio Highlights: Union (led $4M seed), Keplr, Skip (acquired by ICF), Fairblock (led $2.5M seed), Range (led $2.7M seed), Lava, Penumbra
2023 - 2024 · Developed and spun out Noble from Strangelove
- Bootstrapped and launched as independent protocol; $3.3M seed led by Polychain
- Circle’s canonical USDC issuer for the Cosmos ecosystem
- $450M+ USDC in circulation across IBC-connected chains
2021 - 2022 · Co-Founder · Sommelier Finance
- DeFi vault protocol with $40M+ TVL and 32+ automated strategies
- Built and launched Gravity Bridge as independent chain
- $1.5B+ volume bridged between Ethereum and Cosmos
2020 - 2022 · Co-Founder · Juno Network
- First permissionless CosmWasm smart contract chain in Cosmos
- 100% community-owned, zero VC funding — launched via airdrop to ATOM stakers
- Infamous for Prop 16
2020 - 2021 · VP Product · Akash Network
- Lead team to launch Akash mainnet (Dec 2020)
- Decentralized cloud compute marketplace
2019 - 2025 · Co-Founder · Strangelove
- Built the go-to infrastructure team for the interchain
- Created Go Relayer, Interchaintest, Horcrux, Packet Forward Middleware
- Member of Cosmos Builders Foundation Governing Council
- Acquired by Ondo Finance July 2025
- Contract work for a large number of Cosmos ecosystem projects
2018 - 2020 · Director of Product · Cosmos / Tendermint
- Led product for the Cosmos; shipped Cosmos Hub, CosmosSDK, and IBC
- Created cosmos/relayer — the canonical IBC relayer implementation
- Launched Game of Stakes (195 validators), Cosmos Hub mainnet (March 2019), and Game of Zones
- Bootstrapped the validator ecosystem that now secures most major PoS networks
2017 - 2018 · Engineer · Blockstack
- $50M token sale as part of 9 person team
- Built infrastructure on Azure and GCE
- Developed golang indexer for Blockstack
2015 - 2017 · Support → Sales Engineer → Dev Evangelist · InfluxData
- Established Sales Engineering org
- Built tick-charts for Kubernetes
Open Source#
- cosmos/relayer — The canonical IBC relayer
- strangelove-ventures/interchaintest — E2E testing framework for IBC
- strangelove-ventures/horcrux — Threshold signing for validators
- strangelove-ventures/packet-forward-middleware — Multi-hop IBC routing