Gavin Mcdermott
Investor IDEO CoLab Ventures
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolGavin Mcdermott is a seasoned engineer and investor with 13 years building infrastructure for the next-generation internet, focused on distributed systems, dispersed computing, and peer-to-peer networks at IDEO CoLab Ventures. He was a founding engineer at BitGo where he helped shape early Bitcoin multisig security, and previously led front-end engineering and product design across startups and innovation studios. Gavin blends hands-on systems design with experience-led product thinking from roles spanning UX, rapid prototyping, and behavioral design. Based in San Francisco, he bridges research and practical engineering to reimagine internet infrastructure and applications. Beyond code, he explores ideas around consciousness, symbology, and how human expression maps to technical representations—an unusual cross-disciplinary lens that informs his systems work.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced Javascript, Advanced Javascript at Hack ReactorBSBA Finance, BSBA Finance at Creighton University
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Github Skills (83)
peer-to-peer10
ipfs10
js-ipfs10
javascript9
sensor9
gmail9
p2p9
cryptocurrency9
google-docs9
archived9
libp2p9
rust8
gmail-api8
cryptography8
chrome-extension8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
IDEO-coLAB/smirk
Jul 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:101 commits, 72 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
gavinmcdermott/js-libp2p-pstn
Aug 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:53 commits, 2 PRs, 55 pushes in 1 month
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