Matthew Pazar
Founder & Principal at Rockout Mining, LLC
Greater Chicago Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Pazar is a founder and principal with eight years of professional experience who transitioned from institutional finance to building practical Bitcoin services and mining operations. He founded Chicago Bitcoin Advisors to consult individuals, institutions, and businesses on onboarding to Bitcoin, and co-founded Rockout Mining to run an owner-operated mining facility—combining advisory, operations, and hands-on infrastructure experience. Previously he managed pricing and performance measurement on an ~$80B investment portfolio, bringing rigorous valuation, reconciliation, and vendor due-diligence skills to crypto risk and operations. Known for disciplined project delivery and problem solving, he pairs a high-performance mindset with interests in trading, poker, yoga, and endurance activities that inform his focus and resilience. Based in the Greater Chicago Area, he blends traditional finance rigor with entrepreneurial, technical, and operational expertise to help the cryptocurrency ecosystem scale.
8 years of coding experience
Finance, Business, Finance, Economics, Philosophy, Finance, Business, Finance, Economics, Philosophy at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - College of Business
English, Spanish
Github Skills (58)
lightning10
lightning-network10
bitcoin10
payment-gateway10
point-of-sale10
umbrel10
homeserver10
crowdfunding10
single-user9
bitcoin-wallet9
self-hosting9
docker9
raspberry-pi9
wallet8
tor8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
MrPaz/btcpayserver
May 2019 - May 2022
A cross platform, self-hosted server compatible with Bitpay API
Contributions:1 push, 9 branches, 1 tag in 3 years
apihostedcross-platformserverbitpay
MrPaz/Vidly_Node.js
Jul 2019 - Sep 2019
Node.js practice project
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
expressjsnode-jsnode-modulejavascriptexpress
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