Brent Perreault is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with a decade of experience building production-grade systems at Paxos, where he progressed from full-stack engineer to senior technical leadership roles. He combines a PhD in Physics with hands-on blockchain and startup experience, bringing quantitative rigor to distributed systems and financial infrastructure. Brent has led engineering teams and driven technical strategy while remaining deeply involved in architecture and implementation. His background as a founder and academic researcher fuels a pragmatic, experiment-driven approach to solving hard engineering problems. Based in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, he blends financial-grade engineering discipline with a physicist’s modeling instincts to simplify complex, high-assurance systems.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Physics at University of Minnesota
Master of Science (M.S.) Physics, Master of Science (M.S.) Physics at University of Chicago
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Mathematics and Physics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Mathematics and Physics at Concordia College
Contributions:26 commits, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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