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title: "Sonr"
organization: "Sonr"
role: "Co-Founder / CEO"
location: "New York, USA"
url: "https://sonr.io"
startDate: "2021-03-01"
description: "Founded the startup and successfully led executive fundraising efforts, securing $4.7M in capital to build a peer-to-peer identity and asset management system leveraging decentralized identifiers (DIDs), WebAuthn, and IPFS."
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> Founder building Decentralized Identity | W3C Working Group Member for DIDs, WebAuthn, and WASM | 6000+ Github Contributions 2021-2023

- Founded the startup and successfully led executive fundraising efforts, securing $4.7M in capital to build a peer-to-peer identity and asset management system leveraging decentralized identifiers (DIDs), WebAuthn, and IPFS.
- Directed technical strategy and led a cross-functional engineering team in the co-development of a React Native mobile chat application powered by the decentralized Matrix protocol.
- Architected a custom Layer 1 blockchain using the Cosmos SDK, optimizing data serialization and network communication with Protobufs.
- Orchestrated advanced DevOps and server deployments across Google Cloud (GCP), managing complex network infrastructure using Kubernetes (K8s), Docker, Terraform, Ansible, and comprehensive Linux administration.
- Drove massive open-source community growth, achieving the 4th highest global GitHub contributions (Oct 2021 – Oct 2022) for the platform's MVP, and successfully onboarding over 120 first-time blockchain developers to the Motor SDKs during DevNet.
- Actively shaped global web standards as a W3C Working Group Member for DIDs, WebAuthn, and WebAssembly (WASM).

**Skills:** Executive Leadership, Startup Fundraising, Cosmos SDK, React Native, Kubernetes, Docker, Google Cloud, Terraform, Ansible, Protocol Buffers, Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs), WebAuthn, WebAssembly (WASM), IPFS, Matrix Protocol, Technology Strategy, DevOps, Linux Administration
