Michael Scotto
Founding Engineer at Optimus Labs
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Scotto is a founding engineer and versatile full‑stack developer with eight years of experience building secure, production-grade systems across healthcare, finance, Web3, and enterprise security. He blends deep backend expertise in Python, Ruby and Django with hands-on work in smart contracts, CosmWasm, and Typescript—most recently implementing agentic AI endpoint security and designing a Trust‑on‑first‑use protocol. A pragmatic problem solver from a tinkerer’s background, he’s shipped large codebase migrations, invented testing frameworks that scaled to thousands of tests, and led cross‑disciplinary working groups and developer evangelism for NFT standards. Michael pairs an MS in Information Security from Carnegie Mellon with an MBA mindset to balance product, governance and engineering, and he’s notable for translating financial domain knowledge into novel crypto-economic primitives like NFT staking protocols.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Technological Systems Management, Computer Science, Technological Systems Management, Computer Science at Stony Brook UniversityMaster of Information Security Policy and Management, Information Security and Information Systems, Master of Information Security Policy and Management, Information Security and Information Systems at Carnegie Mellon UniversityHong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
Github Skills (13)
smart-contracts10
cosmos10
interchain10
nft10
auction10
blockchain10
cosmwasm10
name-service8
distributed-ledger8
gravity5
go2
cosmos-sdk2
evm2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
humanalgorithm/instagram_mini
Nov 2017 - Jun 2025
Contributions:31 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 8 months
public-awesome/cw721-ibc
May 2022 - Jun 2022
Cosmos IBC NFT Transfers
Contributions:41 commits, 18 PRs, 28 pushes in 1 month
nft
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