Rick Deacon
Co-Founder & CEO at Interlock
Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRick Deacon is a pragmatic founder and operator with 8 years of focused experience fixing broken systems across product-market fit, go-to-market, marketing, and operations. As Co-Founder & CEO of Interlock and Co-Founder & CTO of Velocity Markets, he blends cybersecurity instincts with startup leadership to turn messy processes into repeatable, revenue-driving engines. His background as a security analyst and consultant (Bishop Fox, Optiv, KeyBank) informs a risk-aware approach to product and GTM decisions, even though he describes himself as a cybersecurity builder who is not a coder. Having launched and led multiple ventures from the Bay Area to Ohio, he’s comfortable moving between technical strategy, finance, and hands-on execution. Colleagues rely on him to diagnose systemic problems quickly and prioritize pragmatic fixes that unlock growth. He pairs a liberal arts foundation with deep operational grit, often surfacing non-obvious organizational constraints that block scale.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts Degree Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies, Associate of Arts Degree Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies at Lorain County Community College
Github Skills (19)
voting10
blockchain9
ccxt8
polkadot8
ethereum8
decentralization8
substrate8
foundation8
bitcoin7
cryptocurrency7
kucoin7
bybit7
binance6
market-maker6
trading6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rickdeaconx/rickdeaconx.github.io
Feb 2025 - Mar 2025
Contributions:57 pushes, 1 branch in 15 days
rickdeaconx/Grants-Program
Mar 2023 - Mar 2023
Web3 Foundation Grants Program
Contributions:6 pushes in 1 day
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