POLYMER - Key Persons
Bo was the first hire at Chronosphere (unicorn) and infrastructure engineer at Uber and Capsule8 (acquired). His focus is on database, distributed systems and software infrastructure with experience developing M3DB (OSS time series database).
Derek was a distinguished engineer at EdgeCast CDN where he spent the last 11+ years building and scaling the caching and compute platforms. During his time there, he helped it grow into a global platform delivering terabits per second of data and billions of client requests per day across hundreds of data centers. Prior to EdgeCast, Derek worked for Epson Research and Development implementing face and object recognition, detection, and alignment algorithms.
Before Polymer, Eddie was a Talent Acquisition leader at Polygon Labs, where he scaled the company from 350 to 550, working directly with the Founding Office and senior executives. Prior to web3, Eddie spent a majority of his career at Google, Meta, and Netflix. He has experience in all facets of HR including recruiting, talent mapping, sourcing, negotiating, and stakeholder management. His focus is on finding the best talent (200+ placed so far) and building world class organizations.
Ethan started his career in management consulting at McKinsey and was also an early member of their Digital Asset practice. He developed McKinsey's POV on the relevance of DeFi for institutions and the disruptive potential of digital assets in the gaming and metaverse space. Prior to Polymer, he led strategy and operations at Space Runners, a fashion metaverse startup where he focused on product strategy and GTM. Ethan enlisted and completed 10 years of service in the US Army National Guard as an Intelligence Analyst. He graduated with a BS in Business Analytics from MIT.
George is a software engineer with experience in various areas of software development.Most recently, he worked for percipient.ai where he designed and developed different modules for a web applicationthat detects people and objects in video content and builds analytics based on the collected data.In the past, he has implemented indexing functionality for distributed NoSQL databases,developed various parts of Flash Translation Layer responsible for managing access to Flash Memoryin Flash Memory Arrays, and even designed a C-like languagefor a proprietary Network Processor architecture and wrote a compiler for it.
Giuseppe was an early engineer at Arista Networks and helped the company grow from $100M to $40B in market cap. He previously spent time at Elastic, Cisco Systems, EURid (.eu domain registry) and the Italian National Research Council. His focus is on distributed systems, networking and infrastructure.
Job Titles:
- Co - Founder and Technical Lead at Strangelove
Jack Zampolin is a co-founder and Technical Lead at Strangelove. Jack came to into the crypto world via Blockstack and then moved to Tendermint as Director of Product. He is currently Co-Founder (Product) at Sommelier Network. As a proof-of-stake pioneer and dev evangelist, Jack brings a special blend of cloud infrastructure and blockchain experience.
Lizhang was a technical lead at Uber on the Freight backend platform. At Uber, he worked on redesigning the backend with micro-services, an event-driven message bus, and related frontend work. Before that, he worked at Citadel Securities, built High-Frequency trading systems, and competed with other firms with low latency strategies. He also worked at Motorola and Morningstar.
Mustafa is a co-founder of Celestia, the first modular blockchain network. He completed a PhD in Computer Science at UCL, where he published various research papers on blockchain layer 1 scalability. Previously, he was the co-founder of blockchain scalability startup Chainspace (acquired by Facebook).
Nico was a Staff Engineer at Twilio where he helped build their WebRTC based real-time video product. He has also been at AWS, where he spent time working on the virtualisation stack that is the foundation of EC2. He started as an embedded engineer doing low level type of work: Linux kernel development, boot-loaders, high performance networking and IoT.
Peter consulted for Ernst & Young's Strategy and Innovation divisions. His focus has been on GtM strategy, new product launch/scale, organizational restructuring, and synergy capture with experience connecting partnerships and joint-builds in DeFi.
Sai was a senior software engineer at Google and worked there for 6 years. He built various R&D projects at Google, including VP9/AV1 open source video codec development, perceptual quality improvements, and a Virtual Reality project that involved light fields encoding and rendering.
Supragya was a technical lead at Marlin and also worked at Cisco Systems. His focus has been on on web3 systems research and large scale deployments with deep experience in analyzing MEV, building custom miners, incentivised airdrops, low-latency P2P relays, and encrypted private mempools.
Wenwei delivered database platforms at Paradigm 4 to leading pharmaceutical companies identifying biomarkers for diseases including COVID-19. At Avitide (acquired by Repligen), Wenwei led a team creating biologics databases. Wenwei's academic research and software tools have been cited 800+ times and helped secure $3.7M+ funding from NSF.