Jay Butera
Blockchain And AI Associate Mentor
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJay Butera is a software engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in blockchain and machine learning, currently mentoring at The Ark Lab where technology meets praxeology and metaphysics. He has built consensus engines and environmental mitigation tooling for C4Coin and designed backend data-mining and microservice systems in Scala and Ruby during his time at Panamplify. His early work includes optimization and cross-platform systems for automated drilling-rig detection and hardware research software at UT Austin, reflecting strength in embedded and high‑reliability systems. Based in Austin, he blends academic grounding in scientific computation with practical production experience across distributed systems and consensus protocols. Known for a playful, unconventional outlook—“drawing pentagrams and summoning blockchains”—he pairs creative thinking with rigorous engineering. Colleagues rely on him for mentoring, systems-level design, and bridging complex technical and human-centered learning environments.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Sophomore, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Sophomore at The University of Texas at Dallas
Github Skills (189)
trading10
trading-bot10
cryptocurrency10
centrifuge10
crypto10
chatgpt10
merchant10
mahjong10
cryptocurrencies10
exchange10
api10
developer-tools10
cli10
artificial-intelligence10
anonymous10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
jaybutera/rust-hashgraph
Feb 2019 - Feb 2021
Implementation of HashGraph consensus
Contributions:57 commits, 49 pushes, 8 branches in 2 years
consensushashgraphrustwebassembly
jaybutera/configFiles
Feb 2017 - Aug 2021
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
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