Paul Shapiro
Founder at Stealth-mode fintech
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Shapiro is a founder and product-minded software engineer with 11 years building native and cross-platform iOS, MacOS, and web software using Objective-C/C, Swift, JavaScript, Go, and C++. He has led multiple startups—serving as CEO and product lead at MyMonero and co-founding Producer and Lunarpad—combining hands-on engineering with product strategy, interaction design, and project management. Paul’s backend work includes contributions to the Monero cryptocurrency wallet, where he improved mnemonic handling and wallet logic for a privacy-focused, well-known open-source project. Based in New York, he now runs a stealth fintech venture that builds on his payments and crypto experience. He brings a systems-theory approach to naming, UX, and architecture, and his intellectual interests in physics and philosophy inform a rigorous, design-driven engineering style. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic generalist who moves fluidly between shipping code, shaping product, and operationalizing teams.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Stuyvesant High SchoolComputer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
Japanese, French
Github Skills (12)
cryptocurrency10
crypto-wallet10
wallet10
c-language10
monero10
ethereum-wallet10
cprogramming-language10
cryptography10
blockchain10
bitcoin-wallet10
testing9
cmake7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
monero-project/monero
Oct 2018 - Jan 2019
Monero: the secure, private, untraceable cryptocurrency
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 5 commits, 8 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Paul primarily worked on the backend of the Monero cryptocurrency project, focusing on wallet functionality. Their contributions include fixing bugs, such as a typo in transaction fee estimation arguments. They also updated mnemonic handling code and added tests for case and partial word tolerance in mnemonics. Additionally, the user removed obsolete calculations and made minor code improvements to the wallet logic.
securecryptographycmakeuntraceableprivacy
mymonero/mymonero-core-cpp
Jul 2018 - Nov 2019
A central interface for initial critical light wallet functions backed by a slightly customized minimal vendored Monero C++ src
Contributions:2 releases, 127 commits, 14 PRs in 1 year 4 months
criticallightcustomizedwalletmonero
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