Summary
Mabel Oza is a seasoned founder and technologist with a decade of full-stack and blockchain-focused engineering, currently co-founder of ChaChingSocial and an adjunct lecturer at the University of Illinois Chicago. She has built products across machine learning, stablecoins, DApps, crypto custody, payments, and social platforms, merging hands-on coding with strategic product and community initiatives. A prolific community builder, she founded the Satoshi Fan Club in Chicago and the IBM ODM Meetup, and grew Wells Fargo’s blockchain community to 4,000 members with the BlockTalk series attracting about 100,000 attendees. In industry, she led crypto custody and platform migration projects at Bakkt and Wells Fargo, designed OpenAPI code generation, and engineered event-driven architectures using Kafka and Kubernetes. She is an educator and mentor, developing open-source blockchain materials at UIC and contributing to GitHub and its student-facing education resources. Based in Chicago, she blends entrepreneurial grit with deep technical fluency across TypeScript, Go, Java, and cloud-native practices to ship reliable fintech and crypto systems.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Data Structures and Algorithms, Data Structures and Algorithms at University of California, Berkeley