Marston Connell
Founder at JACKAL Labs
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMarston Connell is a founder and blockchain engineer with eight years of experience building privacy-first, scalable storage systems as Co-Founder and CTO at JACKAL Labs. He focuses on bringing security and decentralization to the blockchain storage layer, translating research-grade ideas into production-ready protocols. Based in Old Toronto, he pairs hands-on engineering with startup leadership, now extending his entrepreneurial efforts through Respawn. His background ranges from intelligence analysis and robotics education to Minecraft modding, reflecting a practical curiosity for systems, teaching, and playful experimentation. Comfortable across protocol design and software development, he blends crypto-native engineering with a mathematician’s attention to correctness. Outside work he’s an unabashed cat fan, hinting at a collaborative, low-drama personal style.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Computer Science B.C.S. Honours Minor in Mathematics Computer Science, Computer Science B.C.S. Honours Minor in Mathematics Computer Science at Carleton UniversityHigh School Diploma Ontario French Immersion Certificate Computer Science Certificate, High School Diploma Ontario French Immersion Certificate Computer Science Certificate at Sir Frederick Banting Secondary School
Github Skills (128)
minecraft10
dlna10
cosmos10
relayer10
duktape10
chain10
stream10
mp310
storage10
inotify10
ogg10
blockchain10
javascript9
rpg9
slime9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
TheMarstonConnell/chain-registry
Oct 2022 - Jan 2025
Contributions:26 pushes, 15 branches in 2 years 4 months
JackalLabs/canine-docs
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
Documentation for Jackal's blockchain Canine
Contributions:10 reviews, 76 commits, 70 PRs in 6 months
canineblockchain-platformblockchainjackalinternet-computer
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