2020 - 2022
2020 - 2022
2020 - 2022
Resume
Experience
2022 - Present
CEO and Advisor
Catena
Catena was founded by myself and 2 former colleagues who are experts in the crypto domain. We realized that our combined experience of working in the crypto industry is an incredibly strong and unique asset. We offer advice on both the financial and tech aspects and work with customers in various capacities to make crypto understandable and accessible for everyone.
2020 - 2023
Lead Software Engineer
Kraken (Enterprise Solutions)
Here I built an in-house crypto remittance system. This system was able to take payments generated in 3rd party tool and distribute them in Bitcoin and Ethereum.
I was also the lead on writing lots of our internal integrations, mostly related to financial data.
2018 - 2020
Software Engineer
Kraken (Prop Desk)
My responsibilities here were twofold. I was responsible for a team of engineers who were tasked with building various trading bots, mostly market maker and arbitrage bots.
The second part of my core responsibilities was analyzing white papers on a technical level for crypto projects we were thinking of investing in.
2013-2018
ServiceNow Developer
ITEO/Devoteam/Veolia/Engage ESM
Before I embarked on a more traditional software engineering path I worked with a number of companies (both as an outward facing dev/consultant and internally) helping them align their ITSM processes to ITIL and making ServiceNow work for them.
ServiceNow is a Rhino based application (Javascript in Java) which has its core build written in Java but with the flexibility to add custom javascript to manipulate core aspects of the system. It's a really neat design and it proved a valuable learning experience, understanding how businesses use tech like this to streamline their IT service desks.
Education
2008 - 2013
University Of Glasgow
Bachelor of Science (Hons)
Achieved a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from one of the most prestigious Computer Science departments in the country.
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This provided me with the underlying principals to forge a career in this exciting field.
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I naturally leaned more towards Software Engineering over other subjects but found the entire course material to be interesting and engaging.
Tech Stack

Frontend


Backend



Infrastructure




Databases





Professional skillset
AGILE worker. Can operate as a SCRUM master
Collaborative Development
Strong testing mindset
Languages
English (native)
French (proficient)
Spanish (fluent)
German (Intermediate)