Rob Witoff
Head Of Platform
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRob Witoff is a seasoned technology leader with 13 years of experience building and scaling secure, production-grade infrastructure across startups and enterprise environments. Currently Head of Platform at Coinbase and a board member at Unit 410, he previously co-founded and led onchain startup Unit 410 and served as CTO at Polychain Capital. His background stretches from systems engineering and data science at NASA JPL to multiple leadership roles at Coinbase and Google, giving him rare domain depth in security, distributed systems, and blockchain. Rob specializes in turning ambiguous problems into robust platforms—“making something from nothing, then making it great”—and shepherds teams from prototype to high-availability operations. He blends entrepreneurial grit with institutional rigor, often bringing research-driven engineering practices into product delivery. Based in Austin, he pairs aerospace training with deep crypto-infrastructure experience, an atypical mix that informs his systems-first approach.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Summer '09, Summer '09 at Y CombinatorBS, Aerospace Engineering, BS, Aerospace Engineering at University of Colorado Boulder
Github Skills (100)
verifiable10
security10
hue10
certificate-transparency10
merkle-tree10
iot-application9
crypto9
upnp9
smartthings9
scalable9
handlers9
encryption9
cryptocurrency9
docker9
cryptography9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
gracenoah/tezos-hsm-signer
Jan 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:45 commits in 4 months
witoff/PebbleMars
Jan 2014 - Mar 2017
Contributions:4 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 3 years 2 months
pebblemarsstreamingvideo
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