title: Co-Founder / CEO
company: Sonr
start: 2021-03-01
location: New York, USA
profile-heading: Founder building Decentralized Identity | W3C Working Group Member for DIDs, WebAuthn, and WASM | 6000+ Github Contributions 2021-2023
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.
  - 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
projects:
  - ../projects/appchain.yml
  - ../projects/beam-chat.yml
  - ../projects/cryptography-library.yml
  - ../projects/decentralized-airdrop.yml
  - ../projects/ecosystem-devrel.yml
  - ../projects/motr-sdk.yml
  - ../projects/token-economics.yml