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"titleColor": "text-job-founder", "description": "Building CTO Desktop and Hermes/OpenClaw infrastructure as a focused applied-R&D vehicle for agentic software delivery, local GitOps, model/provider routing, and self-healing Kubernetes operations.", "achievements": [ "Built CTO / CTO Desktop to prove production patterns for AI-assisted infrastructure operations: local GitOps, workflow routing, agent tooling, and Kubernetes remediation loops", "Architected the Hermes/OpenClaw control-plane boundary: Hermes as the operator-facing gateway for skills/tools, providers, memory, and MCP adapters; OpenClaw as the execution/workflow engine underneath", "Automated Talos Linux, Kubernetes, Helm, Argo CD, Cilium, OpenBao/Vault, observability, and bare-metal/cloud provider abstraction patterns with a cost-conscious operator mindset", "Maintained hands-on production debugging discipline across logs, metrics, Git state, Kubernetes resources, and runbooks β€” using agents as acceleration, not as a substitute for engineering judgment", "Converted lessons from prior SRE, global RPC, CTO, and enterprise infrastructure roles into reusable platform patterns for small AI-native teams" ] }, { "company": "Blocknative", "position": "Site Reliability Engineer", "startDate": "May 2023", "endDate": "May 2025", "tag": "sre", "titleColor": "text-job-sre", "description": "On-chain gas estimation infrastructure for Web3.", "achievements": [ "Led strategic transformation from mixed systemd/unikernel architecture to containerized infrastructure, achieving 100% Kubernetes adoption with ArgoCD-based GitOps workflows and a self-service model that reduced developer friction despite limited team size", "Implemented bare metal Kubernetes cluster using RKE2 on Latitude hardware with Cilium for CNI and network security, supporting high-performance Reth nodes", "Designed and implemented auto-scaling site-to-site connectivity solution, deploying Twingate Operator with AWS Gateway Load Balancer to achieve dynamic capacity management", "Configured Arbitrum Orbit L3 devnet with 250ms blocktime, ensuring high availability while optimizing parent chain costs", "Deployed and maintained Gas Network infrastructure, a distributed oracle platform providing near real-time gas price data and predictions across 35+ blockchain networks", "Developed Go-based on-chain data exporter for wallet balances and transaction timestamps, enabling comprehensive blockchain monitoring in DataDog dashboards and alerts", "Led observability initiatives using DataDog, implementing OpenTelemetry, APM, and distributed tracing while optimizing log ingestion costs", "Implemented nOps and Kubecost for infrastructure cost analysis, leading team initiatives that reduced infrastructure spend by 40%" ] }, { "company": "Pocket Network Inc.", "position": "Head of Infrastructure Engineering", "startDate": "Jul 2022", "endDate": "Jan 2023", "tag": "head", "titleColor": "text-job-head", "description": "Decentralized Web3 infrastructure providing blockchain RPC access at scale.", "achievements": [ "Led and reorganized a team of 13 infrastructure engineers into specialized functional teams spanning 16 global regions β€” established clear ownership, streamlined communication, and enabled the team to operate independently", "Led migration from EC2/Docker Compose to GitOps with Kubernetes and ArgoCD across all 16 global regions, significantly reducing operational costs and deployment complexity", "Managed infrastructure serving over 1 billion daily requests across 50+ blockchain clients including validators, seeds, and archival nodes", "Led migration from DataDog to VictoriaMetrics/Loki/Grafana, drastically reducing observability costs while improving coverage", "Implemented comprehensive automation for node operations including key management, staking, and auto-upgrades", "Established Multi-Cluster architecture with Kubernetes, Helm, and ArgoCD for consistent global deployments" ] }, { "company": "Pocket 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HAProxy integration", "Provisioned and maintained diverse blockchain clients (Geth, Erigon, Polygon, BSC) to support the POKT network", "Implemented automated failover systems to ensure 99.9% uptime for RPC endpoints", "Optimized blockchain node performance through benchmarking and tuning", "Developed automation scripts to streamline node deployment and maintenance operations" ] }, { "company": "Coinmiles", "position": "Chief Technology Officer", "startDate": "Sep 2019", "endDate": "Jul 2021", "tag": "cto", "titleColor": "text-job-cto", "description": "Cryptocurrency rewards platform.", "achievements": [ "Promoted from Software Engineer to CTO within three months β€” fastest path from IC to executive in the company history β€” leading all technical aspects of the platform", "Designed and implemented backend features including ACH and API payment processing systems", "Led technical team management including mentoring, hiring, and code reviews", "Managed cloud infrastructure operations 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