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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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- **Technical strategy and tooling:** Fifteen years of build, tooling and architecture strategy at EA, from FIFA's Perforce migration and the Xbox 360 launch-title build system to company-wide configuration management, studio-wide package tracking and the EA SPORTS Architecture Council; cross-team, cross-studio and cross-company collaboration projects throughout from 2002.
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- **Distributed systems and open source:** Core developer on the Ethereum Foundation's C++ client (657 commits); lead architect at the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance launch; six years funding and coordinating Ethereum Classic client teams through seven network upgrades; drove STRATO's Apache-2.0 release in 2026.
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- **AI-assisted development:** In 2025–26 built AI-assisted engineering workflows and an MCP server at BlockApps and helped the team adopt them.
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## Experience
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**BlockApps STRATO** · Head of Ecosystem · Vancouver / Brooklyn · Jan 2025 – Jul 2026
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- Public face of the project in the Ethereum ecosystem: EthCC[9], ETHDenver 2026 (Museum of Ethereum), community programs and launch outreach.
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- Drove the Apache-2.0 open-source release of STRATO into an independent GitHub organisation (strato-net); credited by the company's co-founder at the March 2026 launch.
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- Built AI-assisted engineering tools and helped the team adopt them: a multi-agent workflow that triages, fixes and reviews GitHub issues (Claude Code and Codex); Griphook, an MCP server exposing platform operations to AI assistants; and transcription/diarisation tooling (WhisperX, pyannote) with upstream PRs.
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**ETC Cooperative** · Executive Director & Secretary · Vancouver / remote team · Jan 2019 – Dec 2024
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- Ran the nonprofit that funded and coordinated Ethereum Classic client development: the legal entity, direction and budget (annual expenditure reaching US$1.9M), and line management of all staff, up to ten at peak, across software engineering, website development, marketing and communications, finance, and the production of three conferences; published annual retrospectives and financials from 2020.
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- Owned recruiting, interviews, hiring and compensation across the staff, with ongoing performance feedback and support for training and professional development; directly managed three engineers for four years.
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- Led two restructurings after the principal funder ended support, preserving priority engineering capability.
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- Funded and coordinated two independent client teams through seven network-wide upgrades.
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- Vice-chair of the EEA Technical Specification Working Group from 2020; joined Hyperledger.
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**Ethereum Foundation · ConsenSys / EEA** · Engineering, architecture and standards roles · 2016 – 2018
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- **Ethereum Foundation, 2016:** Core C++ client developer; led the codebase consolidation and the proposed Apache-2.0 relicensing; cross-platform build, release and CI; 657 client commits plus Homestead documentation.
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- **ConsenSys / Enterprise Ethereum Alliance, 2016–2017:** Lead architect at the 2017 launch (30 founding members); presented the roadmap; secretary of the technical working group and set up its first working groups.
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- **2017–2018:** Sweetbridge (principal developer); Quantfury (blockchain lead); Varro (co-founder and CTO).
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**TD Securities**, DevOps Solutions Architect, Toronto (Apr – Oct 2015): OpenStack migration and Atlassian tooling.
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**Independent and contract development**, Vancouver (2014 – 2015): Sony / PlayStation programming consultant (Feb – Apr 2015); mobile development at Roadhouse Interactive and DeNA; MonoTizen, a Mono/.NET port to Tizen.
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- **EATech, 2005–2007:** Company-wide configuration management (Framework2) in EA's central technology group. Helped modularise RenderWare into ~60 components with testing and compatibility support; built cross-platform build tooling and Visual Studio project generation adopted across EA.
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- **FIFA and EA Canada / Orca CM, 2003–2005:** FIFA 2004's SourceSafe-to-Perforce migration; online lead for FIFA 2005 (first Xbox Live title). Technical lead of the Vancouver studio's configuration-management group for the Xbox 360 launch titles FIFA 06 Road to FIFA World Cup and NBA Live 06, as it grew from one team into a team-of-teams of three sub-leads with around fifteen engineers reporting to them. Interviewed candidates and mentored the group's engineers.
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- **EA UK, 1999–2002:** Football systems on The FA Premier League Football Manager; built the scripting-language parser and bytecode runtime for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets on PS2; Game Development Framework (2002), a cross-company collaboration project.
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**Psygnosis (Sony)**, Programmer, Leeds, UK (1996 – 1998): Prophecy and Global Domination (PC, PlayStation).
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## Independent projects
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- **Local LLMs:** Hermes Agent running against a self-hosted Qwen 3.8 27B model, served by llama.cpp from a 2 x RTX 3090 + NVLink workstation and shared over Tailscale with several other Linux machines; always experimenting.
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- **Early Days of Ethereum:** founder and host of the founding-era oral-history project; 14 interviews, 180+ profiles.
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## Technical skills
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C++ (20+ years): PlayStation 1–4, Xbox generations, GameCube and PC; C#, Python, TypeScript; some Haskell. CMake, Perforce, Git, Jenkins, Docker, Unity; Claude Code, Codex and MCP; Linux, Windows and macOS.
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*Last updated September 2026.*
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