Juan Pineda
Founder And Cryptocurrency ASIC Architect at Silicon Algorithms LLC
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolJuan Pineda is a founder and hands-on cryptocurrency ASIC architect with over 12 years of experience designing and shipping complex silicon, firmware, and systems from RTL to production. Based in San Francisco, he has led multiple startups and licensing businesses—architecting 7nm and 16/28nm miners, a 2048-bit modulo square VDF core, and a range of crypto mining IP—while also running a long-standing IC licensing firm for digital audio. He blends deep physics and computer science training with practical skills across software stacks, embedded Linux, FPGA prototyping, and device-level analog, allowing him to move quickly from architecture to tapeout. An experienced recruiter and negotiator, he pairs technical leadership with business acumen in IP licensing, investment diligence, and vendor management. Unusually, he still prototypes RTL on FPGAs to validate systems before ASIC commits, reflecting a persistent maker’s mentality alongside strategic product thinking.
12 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
SB, Physics, SB, Physics at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMS, Physics, MS, Physics at Brandeis University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (115)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
nilnullzip/acc-meteor
Feb 2014 - Mar 2014
Contributions:27 commits in 13 days
Hedgyco/webogram
Feb 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:11 pushes in 6 months
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