Mark Pfluger
Senior Director Of Engineering at Kraken
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolMark Pfluger is a seasoned technology leader and founder with 11 years of experience building and scaling crypto and cloud-native systems from first mobile wallets to enterprise-grade custody. Currently Director of Engineering, Institutional at Kraken and former Head of Crypto Engineering at Blockchain.com, he built multi-team orgs, core wallet libraries, and cold/hot storage systems securing over $1B in assets while enabling major revenue products. A Y Combinator alumnus and startup CTO, he prototypes custody and Layer-2 integrations and has hands-on full-stack experience shipping wallet frontends and deploy automation. His background spans AI research and early mobile sensing startups, giving him a rare mix of product-first entrepreneurship and deep systems/cryptography engineering. Based in Oakland, he combines rigorous academic training from TUM with practical operational experience in monitoring, auditing, and technical due diligence for crypto investments.
12 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
W23, W23 at Y CombinatorMichaeli-Gymnasium MünchenMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Technical University of MunichComputer Science, Computer Science at Politecnico di Milano
English, German
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Github Skills (17)
javascript10
front-end-development10
coffeescript9
gruntjs9
g9
blockchain8
css7
html7
browser-detection6
cllocationmanager6
modal-dialog6
jquery6
cllocation6
django6
objective-c6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
blockchain/My-Wallet-V3-Frontend
Dec 2014 - Apr 2017
Blockchain Web Wallet Frontend
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 404 commits, 24 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Mark primarily contributed to the frontend of the Blockchain Web Wallet, making changes to deploy scripts, the server-side configurations, and the user interface. They implemented deploy scripts to various environments (dev, alpha, staging), and added new Grunt commands for deployments. Additionally, the user modified server-side code for security and verification purposes. Furthermore, the user was involved in UI and admin page updates for the beta admin module.
blockchainfrontendbitcoinwalletunit-tested
blockchain/api-v1-client-java
Mar 2016 - Apr 2016
Blockchain Bitcoin Developer APIs - Java
Contributions:1 review, 41 commits, 3 PRs in 26 days
bitcoinblockchainjava
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