R Willett
ICO Designer at Dispatches from the Multiverse
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolR Willett is a veteran software engineer and entrepreneur with 12+ years of experience building products that bridge consumer apps and blockchain infrastructure. He invented the Initial Coin Offering and launched the Mastercoin/Omni protocol layer on Bitcoin in 2013, seeding an ecosystem now worth over $2B and powering projects like Tether and MaidSafe. As founder and chief architect of Omni and ICO Designer for UpToken, he led what he calls “The Perfect Token Sale,” helping grow Coinme into the world’s largest crypto ATM network and enabling distribution through Coinstar kiosks. By day he’s a pragmatic engineering lead who rebuilt Cozi’s product suite in React and mentored multi-disciplinary teams; by night he’s a public-facing crypto evangelist and improv podcast cohost. He combines deep low-level systems and firmware experience from a decade at Dynon Avionics with a knack for practical token design and secure custody, a rare mix that helped him hold project funds without loss. Based in Seattle, he’s as comfortable shipping family-oriented mobile apps as he is architecting novel blockchain economics.
12 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Seattle Pacific UniversityHighschool, Highschool at North Clackamas Christian School
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (42)
bitcoin10
specification10
blockchain10
authentication9
sidekiq9
devise9
rails8
ruby8
jruby7
warden7
spree7
iphone-app6
steam6
appsflyer6
javascript-game6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
JackCTW/spec
Sep 2014 - Feb 2015
Contributions:8 commits in 5 months
specificationblockchainprotocol-specificationbitcoin
dacoinminster/dacoinminster
Aug 2020 - Apr 2023
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
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