Greg Slepak
President at Tao Effect LLC
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolGreg Slepak is a seasoned software founder and president based in San Francisco with 16 years of experience building privacy- and decentralization-focused products. He founded Tao Effect (creator of Mac encryption software Espionage) and leads the okTurtles Foundation, supporting blockchain and DNS security efforts—contributions that include cross-platform maintenance of the Namecoin legacy client and full‑stack work on the DNSChain project. His background spans embedded/autonomous vehicle planning (DARPA Urban Challenge) to hands-on teaching and curriculum development in programming and blockchain. Greg blends systems-level engineering with product-minded entrepreneurship and a pragmatic insistence on concrete, meaningful collaboration.
16 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at University of Florida
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Github Skills (27)
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Github contributions (5)
okTurtles/dnschain
Dec 2013 - Apr 2017
A blockchain-based DNS + HTTP server that fixes HTTPS security, and more!
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 238 commits, 23 PRs in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Greg contributed to the core functionality of the DNSChain project, as evidenced by changes to both front-end (test files using Mocha) and back-end code (CoffeeScript files). The user focused on test implementations and writing blockchain interactions. They introduced unit testing and refactored the existing code, leading to several bug fixes and improving overall code quality.
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namecoin/namecoin-legacy
Jul 2014 - Sep 2014
Legacy client. New version here: https://github.com/namecoin/namecoin-core Note the release branch! - Official website:
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Greg primarily focused on build and compilation issues within the legacy Namecoin client. Their contributions include fixes for building the software on macOS using homebrew, adding macro guards to improve compatibility with different compilers, and addressing a "bloody" `MSG_NOSIGNAL` definition for cross-platform compatibility. These changes suggest efforts to maintain and port the legacy client to various platforms.
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