Brandon Millman
CEO & Co-founder at Phantom
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrandon Millman is a founder and engineering leader with 13 years of experience building high-throughput trading infrastructure and consumer platform code. As CEO and Co‑founder of Phantom and former Engineering Manager at 0x, he led the team behind an API that powered over $100M/day in decentralized exchange volume and built liquidity tooling for professional market makers. His hands‑on background spans Solidity and Ethereum smart contracts, TypeScript/Node back ends, and React front ends, with earlier platform work at Twitter on iOS and search. An active contributor to the 0x monorepo, he’s debugged and refactored core faucet tooling and implemented signed-order plumbing, reflecting deep practical knowledge of web3 integrations. Based in San Francisco and trained in electrical and computer engineering at Duke, he pairs startup grit with production-grade engineering discipline. Colleagues know him for translating complex trading and blockchain requirements into reliable, developer-friendly systems.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
B.S.E. Electrical and Computer Engineering Computer Science, B.S.E. Electrical and Computer Engineering Computer Science at Duke University
Github Skills (6)
solidity10
web3js10
blockchain10
ethereum9
nodejs9
smart-contracts9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
0xProject/0x-monorepo
Aug 2017 - Aug 2020
0x protocol monorepo - includes our smart contracts and many developer tools
Role in this project:
Back-end & Solidity Developer
Back-end & Solidity DeveloperContributions:57 releases, 1054 commits, 302 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Brandon's commits primarily focused on debugging and refactoring code within the `packages/kovan-faucets` directory of the `0xproject/0x-monorepo` repository. The work involved fixing build errors, cleaning up the Kovan faucet package, and adding features such as generating and dispensing signed orders. This also included implementing web3 related code changes. The commits demonstrate a good understanding of blockchain and smart contract technologies.
monorepoexchangeethereumblockchain0x-protocol
0xProject/connect-starter-project
Nov 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:12 commits, 2 PRs, 13 pushes in 3 months
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