Andrew Donelson
CEO CTO at Nlaak Studios
Houston, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Donelson is a seasoned technology founder and hands-on CTO with 11+ years building backend systems and leading Nlaak Studios to pioneer a security- and performance-first blockchain platform. He combines deep Go, Docker, and Linux expertise—honed at Tenerity—with experience in microservices, automated CI/CD, and modern frontends like Next.js. A former electronic warfare technician and Army specialist, he brings disciplined systems thinking and hardware-level troubleshooting to software architecture and blockchain design. His current project, Global Wealth & Freedom, highlights a pragmatic focus on intuitive developer workflows and production-grade Golang services. Based in Houston, he blends entrepreneurial leadership with a persistent curiosity for AI, Cosmos ecosystem tooling, and novel blockchain languages like Gno.Land.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
No Computer Science, No Computer Science at University of PhoenixNo Computer Science, No Computer Science at Arizona Western CollegeBachelor of Science (BS) Technical Management with focus in Software Project Management, Bachelor of Science (BS) Technical Management with focus in Software Project Management at DeVry UniversityAssociate of Science (AS) Computer Programming, Associate of Science (AS) Computer Programming at Arizona Computer Institute of technology
English
Github Skills (93)
plug10
secured10
firefox9
cli9
cosmos9
python9
blockchain-platform9
chrome-extension9
blockchain9
ethereum9
ignite9
chrome9
browser-extension9
artificial-intelligence9
crypto8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
AndrewDonelson/go-basic-blockchain
May 2023 - Oct 2024
A Basic Blockchain written from scratch and not using any 3rd party blockchain (go-ethereum, bitcoin, Tindermint (Cosmos), etc to teach others as well as show skills
Contributions:7 PRs, 70 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 4 months
blockchainscratch
NlaakStudios/gowaf
Jul 2018 - Nov 2018
A MVC Web Application framework for Go(Golang)
Contributions:86 PRs, 298 pushes, 34 branches in 4 months
golangweb-applicationframeworkmvc-web-applicationweb-application-framework
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