Kristy-leigh Minehan
Technical Advisor at Core Scientific
Kirkland, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKristy-leigh Minehan is a seasoned technical advisor and cryptographic engineer with nine years of focused experience in cryptocurrency infrastructure, mining hardware, and high-performance software. She has led product and technology strategy as a CTO and interim silicon architect, advised at scale for companies like Core Scientific, CoreWeave and Valkyrie, and currently consults while maintaining autonomy to develop open-source software. Her hands-on work includes modifying core mining algorithms and fixing a Monero 127-transaction vulnerability in the sgminer-gm GPU miner, reflecting deep expertise across VHDL, OpenCL, C and low-level systems. Known for preferring the hard right over the easy wrong, she combines pragmatic product polishing for performance and maintainability with a long history of mentoring and building engineering capability. Based in Kirkland, WA, she also serves as an expert witness on blockchain, mining, and hardware matters—an unusual blend of courtroom credibility and chip-to-cloud technical depth.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Yes
English
Github Skills (6)
c1710
kernel10
opencl10
gpgpu10
c1110
gpu10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
genesismining/sgminer-gm
Oct 2016 - Feb 2018
A multi-algo GPU miner
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 15 commits, 11 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Kristy-leigh primarily worked on modifying and improving the core mining algorithms for the sgminer-gm project. Their contributions include adding support for variable-length inputs and expanding buffer sizes to address a security vulnerability (127 Transaction Bug) in Monero mining. This involved significant code changes within the `cryptonight` algorithm, kernel modifications, and adjustments to pool interaction logic. Additionally, the user addressed missing file dependencies and optimized the code base to better handle GPU hardware controls.
gpugpu-minermineralgo
OhGodACompany/OhGodATool
Mar 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 10 months
amdediting
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