Rob Secord
Founder, CTO at CarbonOpus
Aurora, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRob Secord is a founder and CTO with 20+ years of full‑stack web experience and 5+ years focused on Ethereum, Solidity and Web3 protocols. He co-founded Charged Particles and Taggr, building DeFi-NFT products and bridging physical items to NFTs, and contributed Solidity work to notable projects like PoolTogether. Comfortable across Solidity, EthersJS, GraphQL, React and Node, he designs end-to-end DApps and cloud-backed decentralized architectures (IPFS, ENS, The Graph). Rob also builds solo products from an off-grid log cabin, applying a maker’s discipline to complex system architecture and creator-first platforms like Carbon Opus. He blends deep engineering craft with product instincts—shipping audited smart contracts, DApp UX, and backend microservices. His background in fintech and long history in front-end architecture makes him adept at translating crypto primitives into usable consumer experiences.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Information Systems; Programming Systems Analysis Business, Bachelor of Science Computer Information Systems; Programming Systems Analysis Business at DeVry University
English
Github Skills (5)
smart-contracts10
solidity10
ethereum10
blockchain10
testing10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
pooltogether/pooltogether-pool-contracts
May 2020 - Oct 2020
PoolTogether prize-linked savings game Solidity smart contracts.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:35 reviews, 87 commits, 130 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Rob primarily contributed to the smart contracts of the PoolTogether project. Their work involved reorganizing module deployment locations, implementing and merging sponsorship features, and adding unit tests for time lock functionality and redemption of tickets. Additionally, they refactored prize strategy functions to use before/after function hooks.
smart-contractssolidity
Charged-Particles/mrkl-drop-data-chunks
May 2021 - Jun 2021
The Merkle drop data broken up into chunks of 101 addresses and including a mapping file
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes in 2 days
addressesmappingmerklebrokenchunks
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