Hovhannes Kuloghlyan
Co-Founder at Grōksmith.
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHovhannes Kuloghlyan is a founder and technical leader with 12+ years of experience bridging academic physics and high-tech entrepreneurship, now based in San Francisco. With a PhD in theoretical physics, he has led Groksmith since 2015—consulting web3 projects for clients including PwC, Ethereum, Ripple, UEFA, DEWA, and UNICEF—and co-founded Wirestock, an AI creator monetization platform. He combines deep research-driven problem solving from his cosmology background with hands-on full-stack development (notably contributing bug fixes and features to Ripple’s ripple-client UI and backend integrations). Comfortable scaling teams and processes, he has built engineering organizations of 30+ people, run CTO roles, and overseen product architecture and automation. His profile blends scientific rigor, proven enterprise and startup partnerships across Europe, the Middle East, and North America, and a knack for turning complex distributed systems into production-ready products.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Theoretical Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Theoretical Physics at Yerevan Physics Institute after A. I. AlikhanyanMaster's degree Theoretical Physics, Master's degree Theoretical Physics at Yerevan State University
English, Russian, Armenian
Github Skills (11)
javascript10
angularjs10
ripple10
front-end-development9
j9
rest-api8
api-rest8
css8
html8
restful-api8
api-design8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ripple/ripple-client
Mar 2015 - Jan 2016
A UI for the Ripple payment network built using web technologies
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:66 commits, 16 PRs, 9 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Hovhannes primarily focused on bug fixes and feature enhancements within the Ripple client's codebase. Their contributions included converting fees to the correct data type in transaction rewrites and history controllers, along with implementing email/push notifications through integration with the Roost service. The user also addressed UI/UX issues by preventing lodash from overwriting underscore variables and correcting the class for error messages in notifications.
paymentstechnologiescryptopaymentripple
h0vhannes/PyBack
Nov 2015 - Nov 2023
Django Vagrant Saltstack Boilerplate
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes in 8 years 1 month
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