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Robert Witoff

Crypto Infrastructure

Austin, Texas

Investor

Invests in

Stages:

Series A
Seed

  • Min Investment:

    $10,000.00

  • Max Investment:

    $100,000.00

  • Target Investment:

    $50,000.00

Skills

Systems Engineering
Python
Algorithms
System Architecture
Software Design
Software Engineering
Matlab
Simulations
Linux
Entrepreneurship
Software Development
Java
Programming
Data Science
Machine Learning
JavaScript
Data Mining
Spacecraft
Big Data
Unix

Education

Investments

Witness

Seed

Total Funding: $4M

Perennial Labs

Seed

Total Funding: $12M

Resourcely

Seed

Total Funding: $8M

Work Experience

Unit 410

2018

  • Co-Founder & CEO

    2018

    Institutional Cold Storage & Staking

Polychain Capital

2018 - 2021

  • Chief Technology Officer

    2018 - 2021

    Artisanal hash functions

Google

2017 - 2018

  • Security

    2017 - 2018

Coinbase

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!

JPL (NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

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.

CU DIV

2008 - 2010

  • Co-Founder

    2008 - 2010

    Development club that paired hackers with non-profits to do good for our community.

Apigy

2009 - 2009

  • Co-Founder

    2009 - 2009

    Automation. In Y Combinator S09.

Chalktalk

2006 - 2009

  • Founder

    2006 - 2009

    Communication software for schools.

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

2008 - 2008

  • Constellation Program Systems Engineering

    2008 - 2008

    Returning NASA to the moon. Manned vehicles & lunar habitats.

Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics

2006 - 2008

  • Research Assistant

    2006 - 2008

    Spaceweather forecasting algorithms, Spacecraft sensor calibration and more.