Robert Witoff
Crypto Infrastructure
Austin, Texas
Invests in
Locations:
Min Investment:
$10,000.00Max Investment:
$100,000.00Target Investment:
$50,000.00
Skills
Education
- Uo
- YC
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Work Experience
2018
Co-Founder & CEO
2018
Institutional Cold Storage & Staking
2018 - 2021
Chief Technology Officer
2018 - 2021
Artisanal hash functions
2017 - 2018
Security
2017 - 2018
2014 - 2017
Chief Architect
2017 - 2017
Director of Infrastructure & Security
2014 - 2017
Designed cloud environments and migrated company off of 3rd party providers into hardened AWS VPCs. Developed modern, secure, 100% dockerized deploy pipeline with consensus based deploys that protect billions of dollars flowing through our environment from human and technical single point failures. Conducted regular redteam & pentest to test defenses and response. Exercised security & infrastructure automation in a 24 hour production migration to a new datacenter with 0-downtime in a "Scorched Earth" event. Built realtime streaming, analytics and anomaly detection covering billions of daily events. Building Infra, Devops, Ops and Security Teams to scale Coinbase to the moon!
2009 - 2014
Data Scientist in CTO's Office
2013 - 2014
Architected new data systems used by Astronaut Office, moved the first ITAR workloads to GovCloud, redesigned JPL's institutional search systems, built realtime web-based query & analysis systems for the Mars Curiosity rover and led a variety of Security & People analysis projects.
OPALS Space Station Systems Engineering Lead
2009 - 2013
Designed and flew NASA's first operation LEO laser communication satellite. I managed all interfaces with the Internal Space Station including structural, electrical, thermal, environmental, robotic, astronautic and software subsystems. Successfully integrated as the first external payload to fly on SpaceX's (CRS3 - F9) flight to ISS.
Software Engineer
2009 - 2011
Built navigation software for the Dawn and Rosetta missions to two protoplanets and a comet.
2008 - 2010
Co-Founder
2008 - 2010
Development club that paired hackers with non-profits to do good for our community.
2009 - 2009
Co-Founder
2009 - 2009
Automation. In Y Combinator S09.
2006 - 2009
Founder
2006 - 2009
Communication software for schools.
2008 - 2008
Constellation Program Systems Engineering
2008 - 2008
Returning NASA to the moon. Manned vehicles & lunar habitats.
2006 - 2008
Research Assistant
2006 - 2008
Spaceweather forecasting algorithms, Spacecraft sensor calibration and more.