Destry Saul
Managing Director at LSST Discovery Alliance - Project Dovetail
Tucson, Arizona, United States
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Top SchoolDestry Saul is a managing director and seasoned software and data engineering leader with 13 years of experience building production systems across astronomy, geospatial imaging, and blockchain finance. He combines deep technical roots—a PhD in astronomy and a history of developing custom machine-vision and large-scale data pipelines—with hands-on product work, from image processing at BlackSky to designing Unchained Capital’s multisignature Bitcoin vault platform. At NSF NOIRLab he led principal engineering efforts, and he now directs Project Dovetail for the LSST Discovery Alliance, blending research-scale data challenges with pragmatic software delivery. An early employee and consultant across startups and enterprise, he’s comfortable in roles that require both architectural vision and low-level transaction, keystore, and blockchain integration expertise. Outside of core engineering he’s organized developer communities and taught blockchain application development, reflecting a habit of translating complex technical topics into accessible learning.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Astronomy/ Theater and Performance Studies/ Physics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Astronomy/ Theater and Performance Studies/ Physics at University of California, BerkeleyDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Astronomy and Astrophysics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Astronomy and Astrophysics at Columbia University
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Github Skills (58)
trezor9
ledger9
multisig9
bitcoin9
wallet9
cold-storage9
libra9
bitcoin-wallet8
firefox8
blockchain8
cryptography8
ethereum8
plug8
cryptocurrency8
security8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
destrys/destrys
Jul 2020 - Sep 2024
Contributions:20 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 2 months
destrys/IntroToDApps
Jan 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:23 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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