Mars Orpiano is a Lead Creative Strategist based in Los Angeles with 10 years of experience translating stories into high-performing digital ads and 360° marketing strategies. Rising through multiple creative and performance roles at Pique, Mars combines hands-on production skills with strategic oversight to drive measurable campaign growth. A design-trained storyteller (USC and Cal State Sacramento), they blend visual sensibility with data-driven optimization to craft narratives that resonate across channels. Mars also contributes to open-source back-end work on high-profile blockchain clients like BNB Smart Chain, demonstrating technical problem-solving beyond typical creative roles. Known for turning casual conversations into campaign concepts, they enjoy collaborating with visionary teams and taking on diverse creative projects. Open to new opportunities, Mars brings a rare mix of creative leadership, technical curiosity, and operational rigor.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Design, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Design at University of Southern California
A BNB Smart Chain client based on the go-ethereum fork
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:2 commits, 14 PRs, 16 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Mars primarily contributed to the back-end logic of a BNB Smart Chain client. Their work involved fixing a critical logic issue in the peer handling system, which resolved a frequent "peer not registered" error. They also enhanced bid comparison and reply bidding results, adding detail logs, and made modifications related to the MEV operations for the miner. Additionally, the user updated dependencies, specifically switching to a generic set library.
Contributions:24 commits, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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