Jason Hedman
Founding Engineer at Merit Systems
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Hedman is a founding engineer and serial technical founder with 8 years of experience building scalable crypto-native and education-focused products from idea to user traction. He blends a CS and applied math background from Vanderbilt with hands-on expertise in Move smart contracts, delegated wallets, stablecoin systems, and knowledge-graph powered SaaS—having led ChatEDU to 300k+ users and processed 500k+ files. Jason has a track record of shipping novel DeFi primitives (composable yield strategies and aggregator vaults) and token-governed allocation platforms, demonstrating comfort across smart contract design, backend scale, and product leadership. Based in New York, he pairs startup grit with product instincts from leading small engineering teams and winning multiple hackathons. A less obvious strength is his early habit of experimenting in high school—building a prediction market and bonding curve—which foreshadowed his persistent focus on market mechanics and token design.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Game Design and Development, Game Design and Development at DIS - Study AbroadBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science and Applied Math, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science and Applied Math at Vanderbilt UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Needham High School
Github Skills (18)
billing10
decentralization10
api10
blockchain10
llm9
typescript9
multi-agent9
react9
anthropic9
vercel8
ai8
solana8
openai8
gemini8
generative-ai5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
chat-edu/v1
Oct 2023 - Jun 2024
Personalized AI tutoring platform - winner of Microsoft Generative AI Hackathon
Contributions:184 PRs, 265 pushes, 155 branches in 7 months
aigenerative-ai
ask-the-hive/the-hive
Dec 2024 - Jun 2025
Multi-agent DeFi swarm for Solana research and execution.
Contributions:1 review, 113 PRs, 153 pushes in 5 months
multi-agentsolana
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