Mark Nadal
CEO at Play by Ear
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarMark Nadal is a Silicon Valley founder and CEO with 15 years of experience building decentralized systems and security-focused products from the ground up. Since 2014 he has led ERA INC and raised over $2.7M from high-profile investors including Marc Benioff and Tim Draper to develop GUN, a real-time, offline-first graph database that removes the need for traditional servers and simplifies conflict resolution. He pairs deep technical leadership with hands-on engineering, having previously served as a lead developer and now advising as a security analyst on steganography, zero-knowledge, and intelligence projects. Based in San Francisco, he operates at the intersection of privacy-first architectures and practical product delivery, prioritizing resilience and user-controlled data. Mark’s career blends fundraising savvy, open-source innovation, and niche security expertise that often informs his decentralized designs.
15 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (200)
big-data10
firefox10
nodejs10
css10
crdt10
cryptography10
windows10
cybersecurity10
chromium10
browser-extension10
graph10
odf10
machine-learning10
metamask10
chrome10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
gundb/gun
Jul 2015 - May 2019
Please use https://github.com/amark/gun for now.
Contributions:1 push, 2 branches, 1 comment in 3 years 10 months
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amark/gun
Mar 2014 - Jan 2023
An open source cybersecurity protocol for syncing decentralized graph data.
Contributions:8 releases, 5 reviews, 1933 commits in 8 years 11 months
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