Giv Par
Founder at Aya
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolGiv Par is a seasoned software engineer and founder based in San Francisco with over 15 years of hands-on experience building scalable web and blockchain systems and more than 20 years in the industry overall. He has co-founded multiple startups (one acquired) and now leads Aya, which brings AI capabilities to blockchain in a configurable, production-oriented way. His background spans senior engineering and architecture roles at Harmony and AWS, plus leadership positions at product-driven organizations like PICT/Popsugar and Intricately, where he delivered real-time cloud usage intelligence. Comfortable across the stack, he has repeatedly moved between shipping code, designing architectures, and growing engineering teams. He combines a sociology/philosophy BA with formal training in entrepreneurship and data science, a mix that informs pragmatic product decisions and user-focused technical design. Known simply on GitHub as a "builder of stuff," he brings a maker’s curiosity to complex distributed and cloud-native challenges.
15 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at AngelPadEntrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at Salesforce IncubatorProfessional Certificate, Data Science: R and Machine Learning, Professional Certificate, Data Science: R and Machine Learning at HarvardXBA, Sociology, Philosophy, BA, Sociology, Philosophy at Macquarie University
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18questions
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Github Skills (101)
otpauth10
harmony10
google-authenticator10
solidity9
scaffolding9
webscraping9
wallet9
http-request9
metadata9
quorum9
authenticator9
snapshot-testing9
discord9
secured9
otp9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
givp/givp.github.io
Jul 2016 - Aug 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 15 pushes, 2 comments in 7 years 1 month
givp/RoyGBiv
Aug 2012 - Aug 2018
Contributions:22 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 6 years
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