Lead Crypto Engineer at Uphold
Backend engineering
& technical leadership.
I'm a Lead Crypto Engineer at Uphold, where I've worked in the Crypto team since joining in 2020. I combine hands-on backend engineering with technical leadership, with experience in blockchain integrations, system design and production operations.
JavaScript / TypeScript PostgreSQL Kubernetes
Bitcoin / EVM System design AI-assisted development
Professional work
July 2020 to present
I lead the design and backend implementation of internal systems that reduce manual work and improve operational processes. I also coordinate with other engineering teams and departments to deliver technical initiatives.
March 2026 to present
November 2024 to March 2026
June 2022 to November 2024
July 2020 to June 2022
October 2019 to January 2021
Student Researcher
Researched intrusion recovery in blockchain systems for my master's dissertation, using Ethereum, Solidity and IPFS.
December 2018 to December 2019
IT Consultant / Systems Administrator
Worked on network infrastructure, server administration and Python and Bash automation for environmental data processing.
Outside production work
Academic and personal work. My professional contributions are described above.
Academic project
A Java application running on an elastic AWS cluster. Request-level performance metrics informed how work was routed between server instances.
Academic project
Deployment of Docker Swarm on AWS, with Terraform for infrastructure, Ansible for provisioning, and Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring.
Personal project
A self-hosted server used to learn and maintain container-based services and systems administration.
Background
2018 to 2020
Focus on distributed systems, cyber-physical systems and cybersecurity.
2015 to 2018
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