Ashoka Finley
Forward Deployed Engineer at 1mind
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAshoka Finley is a forward-deployed engineer and founder with 11 years of experience building products at the nexus of sustainability, finance, and decentralized systems from San Francisco. He combines a BA in Political Economy with deep full‑stack and smart‑contract experience—contributing to prominent projects like The Graph’s contracts and building interfaces for MakerDAO during critical DeFi launches. Ashoka has founded and scaled a climate-focused subscription platform, led product and recommendation-engine work at fast-moving startups, and repeatedly bridges policy-level systems thinking with hands-on engineering. He’s driven by practical, long-term impact in food, energy, and housing systems, and brings a rare mix of community-focused organiser experience and technical depth to designing restorative economies. An often-overlooked strength is his track record of translating stakeholder networks and grassroots campaigns into measurable product adoption and institutional partnerships.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
B.A Political Economy, B.A Political Economy at University of California, BerkeleyA.A Global Marketing; Comparative Politics International Business Marketing, A.A Global Marketing; Comparative Politics International Business Marketing at Santa Monica College
French, Spanish, English
Github Skills (6)
contract10
solidity10
ethereum10
graphql4
wpgraphql4
wordpress-graphql4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
graphprotocol/contracts
Feb 2019 - Feb 2019
Contracts repository for The Graph protocol
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits in 24 days
Contributions summary:Ashoka primarily focused on modifying and updating the Graph Name Service (GNS) smart contracts. Their contributions involved refining the contract interfaces, adjusting event definitions, and implementing new functionality. They updated the GNS contract to align with specifications and improved the overall structure. The user's work focused on enhancing the core logic and features of the smart contract.
graph-protocolthe-graphethereumblockchaingraph
shkfnly/intranet
Aug 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:68 commits, 5 pushes in 2 months
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