Summary
Draden Gaffney is a software engineer with eight years of experience building production systems across banking, fintech, and crypto, currently based in New York. He co-founded Finit Loyalty while serving as a Member of Technical Staff on Anchorage Digital’s lending team, blending startup product instincts with institutional crypto engineering. His background spans full-stack systems, from resume-parsing ML APIs and web scrapers at Pave to backend monetization and ad-authorization tooling during a Facebook internship. Draden has hands-on experience with distributed services, CI/CD on AWS, mobile/web integrations, and secure authentication stacks, reflecting a practical orientation toward shipping resilient services. He combines a University of Virginia CS degree with early work in gaming and eSports analytics, which helped hone his data-driven approach to product problems. That mix of startup leadership, fintech/crypto domain depth, and full-stack execution makes him effective at translating complex regulatory and business constraints into reliable software.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of Virginia