Nick Rygiel
Haverford Township, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Rygiel is a multidisciplinary technology and finance leader who serves as Managing Partner, CTO, and CISO of Protocol Wealth, bringing eight years of professional experience and a career foundation as a U.S. Naval Academy-trained systems engineer. He applies systems engineering to secure, crypto-native wealth management—designing MPC wallet infrastructure, DeFi yield strategies, and institutional security architecture while keeping client custody models non-custodial. Nick’s background spans naval shipboard combat and propulsion systems, DoD human-systems integration and PKI/identity interoperability at Deloitte, and a decade of wealth management and portfolio leadership at Merrill Lynch. He founded Ironclad Financial (now merged into Protocol Wealth), blending operational rigor from the Navy and technical risk management to build auditable, resilient financial technology. An MBA and CFP® credential holder, he combines technical depth with client-facing advisory experience and a knack for translating complex cyber and systems problems into practical, regulated financial solutions. Notably, his work links human-machine interface insights from naval autonomy research to secure identity and AI-augmented advisory practices in digital assets.
7 years of coding experience
Bachelor's Degree Systems Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Systems Engineering at United States Naval AcademyHigh School, High School at Brother Rice High SchoolMasters of Business Administration MBA Business Administration and Management General, Masters of Business Administration MBA Business Administration and Management General at University of Maryland
English
Github Skills (22)
ledger9
bitcoin9
blockchain9
solana9
rust8
scalable8
scale8
ethereum8
cryptocurrency8
flask-application5
calculator5
uniswap4
flask-sqlalchemy4
subgraph4
flask-restful4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rivendale/OpenCalc
Oct 2019 - Dec 2021
Open Calculator
Contributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 43 pushes in 2 years 2 months
calculatorjavascript
rivendale/ETH-Zodiacs
Mar 2021 - Feb 2025
Chinese Zodiacs on Ethereum
Contributions:19 PRs, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
ethereumchinese
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