Paul Snow
CEO at DeFi Devs
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolPaul Snow is a veteran software engineer and blockchain entrepreneur with over four decades of experience architecting verifiable, auditable systems that replace trust with cryptographic truth. As founder of Factom and current CEO of DeFi Devs/IDD Labs, he has pioneered data-layer blockchains, cryptographic timestamping, and decision-table automation used in large-scale public programs and commercial tokenization. He blends deep systems design—authoring multi-leader consensus and high-performance rules engines—with practical productization for real estate, finance, and supply-chain auditability. Paul’s background spans early work on fifth-generation programming, a commercial PostScript clone, and repeated implementations of decision-table engines, revealing a long habit of turning research-era ideas into production software. Based in Austin, he mentors new teams pushing decentralized accountability and explores intersections between cryptography and AI to advance verifiable automation.
14 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Louisiana Tech UniversityMasters Computer Science Minor EE, Masters Computer Science Minor EE at Texas A&M University
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Github Skills (34)
bitcoin10
peg10
cryptocurrency10
go10
blockchain10
network10
daemon10
accumulate10
ethereum9
hash9
wallet8
smart-contracts8
conversions8
golang7
accumulator7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
PaulSnow/Fifth
May 2013 - Jul 2016
Contributions:15 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 3 years 2 months
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DTRules/DTRules
Jul 2011 - Feb 2012
Contributions:134 commits, 4 pushes in 7 months
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