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Developed Crossmint's wallet platform from scratch, including APIs for wallet creation, fully-featured SDKs, and a project-scoped console. Hired and built the team, transferring day-to-day responsibilities to a promoted lead. Directed Minting team growth from prototype to resilient, high-throughput system, delivering on tight, customer-driven deadlines. System handled traffic from client's Super Bowl ad and high-profile token launch.

Stood up the company's mobile arm; led a new team to build and ship the first native app from zero to release.

Expanded the mobile org from 2 engineers to 11 across mobile, backend, and QA, building a vertically-integrated team able to ship features end-to-end without external dependencies. Transformed JOOR's Brand & Retail iPad apps from a fragile, regression-prone codebase into a stable platform with predictable 2-6 week delivery cycles. Grew and mentored 3 engineers into roles as JOOR's next engineering managers.

Taught students the skills needed to go from 'I've done a little programming' to 'I have an app in the store'.

Owned mobile end to end and partnered with founder to translate vision into actionable roadmap, conducting user research and reviewing sales calls to inform development. Built the feature process from idea to release: pulling the right people in early, driving buy-in, made the why explicit, and instrumented every project with success metrics so we could kill what wasn't working. Hired the mobile team and set the bar for code quality, testing, and observability. Reduced attrition 50% with improved hiring practices and a greater focus on satisfaction.

I improved the usability of the app when network connectivity was poor. I contributed to a large refactor that enabled Messenger apps and plugins. Won Facebook's annual hackathon with a peer-to-peer messaging app and pitched the concept to Zuck.

Consulted with numerous companies to build apps, mostly in iOS.