Norman R
Director And Senior Advisor at Linqto
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNorman R is a senior legal and strategic leader with 30+ years of experience shaping regulated financial markets and building compliant, technology-forward crypto businesses. Currently Director and Senior Advisor (and Board Chair at Linqto), he has led legal and compliance teams at Binance.US, Ripple, Carta, and Omgeo/DTCC after formative enforcement roles at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the SEC. He specializes in navigating complex commercial and regulatory challenges across payments, securities, and digital assets, often translating regulatory risk into operational product strategies. Notably, his background combines hands-on market enforcement experience with product-focused counsel—helping launch regulated crypto offerings and obtain pivotal approvals like BitLicense-related strategies. Based in San Francisco, he also contributes technically as a backend developer on academic database work, evidencing a rare blend of legal leadership and technical literacy.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Law (J.D.), Doctor of Law (J.D.) at Columbia Law SchoolMaster of Arts (M.A.), History, Master of Arts (M.A.), History at The Ohio State University
German
Github Skills (14)
query-engine10
query-parser10
databases10
eval10
evaluator10
c-language10
expression10
cprogramming-language10
querying10
evaluation10
dbm10
dbms10
expressions10
database10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cmu-db/peloton
Feb 2016 - Apr 2016
The Self-Driving Database Management System
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:36 commits, 4 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Norman primarily contributed to the back-end of the "Peloton" database project. Their commits demonstrate involvement in modifying the expression evaluation engine, specifically related to adding support for features like CASE statements, unary minus operations, COALESCE, and NULLIF. They also made modifications to the expression transformer and testing scripts, which indicates a focus on enhancing the query processing capabilities of the database system. The user's work is essential for improving the database's functionality and query handling.
management-systemrdbmsdatabase-management-systemself-drivingdatabase
normanyahq/kejinyan
Feb 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:140 commits, 5 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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