SpankChain
- Chief Technology Officer
- Acting Head of Engineering
- Senior Software Engineer
- Promoted from senior engineer to CTO. Led an 8–10-person engineering organization across five countries and a 10-person contracted product team in Argentina; together the teams built and operated three distinct products.
- Owned recruiting, hiring, onboarding, coaching, performance management, workforce planning, and organizational change across internal and contracted product teams.
- Set technical direction across customer-facing applications, backend services, payment workflows, data systems, and blockchain infrastructure, and stayed hands-on for the hardest implementation and production problems.
- Partnered with product designers and commercial stakeholders to define user flows, settle product and technical tradeoffs, and carry customer-facing features from concept to production; without a dedicated project manager, ran delivery planning, dependencies, and risk for engineering initiatives.
- Owned payment and settlement systems processing seven figures in transaction volume, including banking integrations, KYC/AML controls, security, reliability, and incident response.
- Maintained 99.9% platform uptime through the loss of banking partners, product de-platforming, and shifting regulatory requirements; retained roughly 80% of the core team through a major product sunset and restructuring.
- Led the technical wind-down of the company: kept security and access controls intact through staff reductions, archived regulated data, and advised leadership on the handoff of intellectual property.