Barry Plunkett
Co-CEO at Cosmos Labs
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBarry Plunkett is a blockchain entrepreneur and operator with nine years of experience building developer tools and institutional-grade infrastructure for tokenization, stablecoins, and DeFi. As Co-CEO of Cosmos Labs and formerly Co-CEO of Skip (acquired by the Interchain Foundation), he has helped scale technologies that now underpin hundreds of interoperable chains and tens of billions in transaction volume. His background spans deep research—award-winning work in reinforcement learning at Wharton—to hands-on venture-building at D. E. Shaw’s startup studio, giving him a rare blend of rigorous modeling and product execution. Based in New York, he focuses on helping protocols and institutions adopt secure, customizable blockchain rails that reduce cost and complexity. Notably, his teams have shipped L1 developer tooling and operational playbooks that materially increased on-chain throughput and institutional adoption. He holds a dual BA in Economics and Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts Economics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts Economics and Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (99)
cosmos10
cryptocurrency10
golang10
osmosis10
consistency10
avalanche10
swap10
cryptography10
blockchain10
dex10
wallet9
composite9
consensus9
cosmos-sdk9
secured9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
skip-mev/config
Nov 2022 - Mar 2023
Repo containing version controlled config values for Skip-enabled blockchains
Contributions:13 reviews, 32 commits, 28 PRs in 4 months
controlledskipblockchainconfigblockchains
skip-mev/docs
Feb 2023 - Jun 2024
Docs for Skip
Contributions:17 reviews, 26 PRs, 17 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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