Kurt Thams
Founder at Agoric
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolKurt Thams is a seasoned founder and technology leader with three decades of experience building secure, regulated fintech and crypto platforms from concept to scale. He founded CodeMiner and Shore Crypto and previously served as CTO/CISO and co-founder of PayNearMe, where he led transaction, security, risk, and compliance engineering and holds multiple patents for core payment systems. Kurt blends deep technical expertise in payments, secure systems, DeFi and smart contracts with hands-on product and team leadership, having launched interoperable networks connecting investors, insurers, and merchants. He has steered R&D and engineering teams across startups and established firms, solving regulatory and operational challenges that accompany financial scale-ups. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area and trained at Stanford, he’s equally comfortable in architecture and code reviews as he is briefing boards or navigating security audits. Outside work he pilots gliders and airplanes, reflecting a practical, risk-aware approach to complex systems.
13 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
MS, BA, Engineering, Economics, MS, BA, Engineering, Economics at Stanford University
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Github Skills (164)
pgp10
chat10
client-library10
keybase10
service-client10
vpn-client9
fine-tuning9
api9
chatbot9
application9
database9
job-queue9
hyperparameter-tuning9
end-to-end-encryption9
security9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
thams/algo
Apr 2018 - Sep 2022
Set up a personal IPSEC VPN in the cloud
Contributions:10 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 5 months
vpnwireguardset-upipsec-vpnipsec
thams/db_fixtures_dump
Oct 2013 - Jul 2021
Contributions:1 release, 20 commits, 4 PRs in 7 years 9 months
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