Brian Mcmichael
Founding Engineer at Servo Farms, LLC
United States
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Top SchoolBrian Mcmichael is a CTO and protocol engineer with 13 years of experience building institution-grade tokenization infrastructure that bridges regulated finance and permissionless DeFi across multiple chains. He previously served as a senior core protocol engineer at MakerDAO, contributing to the Dai Stablecoin System and helping scale DAI to $19B through work on oracles, liquidations, AMMs, lending markets, and security. His current focus is the hard engineering of real-world asset tokenization—designing systems where legal structures, custody, and on-chain rails genuinely interoperate rather than merely appearing in marketing. He runs security research and protocol advisory through Prototech Labs and consults via Servo Farms, with engagements including Coinbase, Starknet, and Ajna Finance. Earlier roles include leading the first legal on-chain real estate transactions in the U.S. at SafeChain and high-performance computing work at the Ohio Supercomputer Center, reflecting a breadth from infrastructure to applied cryptoeconomics. Beyond production systems, he’s an active open-source contributor to projects like Dai, Solidity-adjacent tooling, Bitcoin Core, and IPFS cluster, combining protocol-level rigor with hands-on delivery.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science Certificate, Management Information Systems, Computer Science Certificate, Management Information Systems at Columbus State Community CollegeAdvanced Diploma, Quantitative History, Advanced Diploma, Quantitative History at University of OxfordBA, Philosophy, Honors, BA, Philosophy, Honors at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee39 graduate credits., Law, 39 graduate credits., Law at Capital University Law SchoolMaster of Science (M.S.), Applied Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.), Applied Computer Science at University of West GeorgiaBA, History, BA, History at The Ohio State University
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Github Skills (5)
smart-contracts10
solidity10
ethereum10
blockchain9
testing9
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
makerdao/dss
Nov 2019 - Feb 2022
Dai Stablecoin System
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:36 reviews, 36 commits, 38 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily contributed to the `dss` repository, which is a Dai Stablecoin System built on Ethereum. Their work includes refactoring Solidity code by prefixing library imports, and updating the pragma to version 0.5.12. They also added test contracts, added events to join adapters, and added a signature generation script for the Istanbul update.
ethereumblockchaindaisoliditycryptocurrency
makerdao/dss-interfaces
Nov 2019 - Oct 2021
Abstract developer interfaces to the Dai Stablecoin System core contracts.
Contributions:26 reviews, 134 commits, 53 PRs in 1 year 10 months
ethereumblockchaindaismart-contractsinterfaces
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