Bob McElrath
Software Engineer at Startup/VC Tech Advisor, Independent Contributor
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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SeniorBob Mcelrath is a blockchain consultant and former theoretical physicist with 11 years of technology experience, blending deep cryptography and Bitcoin expertise with practical software delivery. He has held senior roles from Blockchain Architect at Fidelity and CTO at startups to independent advisor and board member for firms like Avanti Bank and CommerceBlock, selectively engaging where product-market fit and founder experience are strong. His background includes Bitcoin core development, building crypto-backed reward systems, and engineering at Bloomberg, giving him both low-level C++/systems chops and product-focused leadership. Trained as a Ph.D. theoretical and mathematical physicist and a former CERN fellow, he brings a rare mix of rigorous analytical thinking and pragmatic startup judgment to redesigning money with software.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (78)
peer-to-peer10
bitcoin-core10
cryptocurrency10
openapi10
p2p10
mining10
ai10
bitcoin10
data-structure10
cryptography10
openai-api9
wallet9
webui9
ollama9
wayland9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
mcelrath/braidcoin
May 2016 - Oct 2016
Experiments in a improving Bitcoin using a Directed Acyclic Graph instead of a chain
Contributions:32 reviews, 3 commits, 48 pushes in 4 months
bitcoindirected-acyclic-graph
mcelrath/bitcoin
Apr 2019 - Sep 2024
Bitcoin Core integration/staging tree
Contributions:12 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 5 months
stagingcryptocurrencybitcoin-corebitcoin
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