Michael Cohen
Co-Founder, CTO at Stacks Open Internet Foundation
Brighton, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Cohen is a senior full-stack engineer and entrepreneur with 8 years focused on Bitcoin, Web3 and decentralised applications, currently serving as Co-Founder and CTO at BigMarketAI. He builds bridges between Bitcoin and smart-contract ecosystems—contributing to sBTC and DLC-based DeFi work on the Stacks platform—and helps advance Clarity, a safer on-chain language for Bitcoin-secured contracts. His career blends deep research training (a PhD in theoretical chemistry from Cambridge) with hands-on product and platform engineering dating back to architecting Bidlogix’s auction systems. Michael has co-founded multiple ventures pursuing a user-owned internet and NFT collaborations that intersect culture and crypto. He is experienced shipping production-grade full-stack systems, cryptographic integration work, and practical decentralised governance primitives. Based in Brighton, he combines academic rigor with startup grit and an unusual focus on making Bitcoin-native smart contracts auditable and secure.
8 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Theoretical Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Theoretical Chemistry at University of CambridgeBachelor of Science - BS Chemical Physics, Bachelor of Science - BS Chemical Physics at University of SussexValentines High School
Github Skills (109)
blockstack10
plutus10
bitcoin10
sips10
layer210
chrome-extension10
google-chrome-extension10
stacks-blockchain10
crypto9
wallet9
clarity9
api9
firefox9
digital-assets9
identity9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
stacks-network/sbtc-bridge-api
Feb 2023 - Apr 2024
Contributions:1 review, 83 PRs, 191 pushes in 1 year 2 months
stacks-network/sbtc-bridge-web
Jan 2023 - Jun 2024
Web tool to facilitage peg operations for sBTC
Contributions:21 reviews, 216 PRs, 399 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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