Ross Campbell
Co-Founder Legal Engineer at OpenEsquire
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRoss Campbell is a corporate attorney-turned-legal engineer and co-founder who combines seven years of corporate and securities practice with hands-on blockchain engineering to help startups and institutions navigate token design, compliance, and automated agreements. Based in New York, he has represented major financial firms in complex M&A, restructuring, and governance matters while building and auditing smart-contract tooling for decentralized projects. As Co-Founder of OpenEsquire and Legal Engineer at OpenLaw and Trustbot, he programs legal workflows and token economics into reproducible, open-source code rather than only drafting paper contracts. He has led ICO operational and compliance strategy, authored cryptoeconomic design and protocol code, and coordinated distributed teams across jurisdictions—bringing practical experience launching token offerings and custody/staking solutions. An active contributor to OpenZeppelin contracts, his work emphasizes security, code clarity, and best practices in the Solidity ecosystem. Fluent in Japanese studies and with courtroom and transactional pedigree, he blends regulatory savvy, engineering rigor, and cross-cultural perspective to operationalize legal infrastructure for crypto-native businesses.
7 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Law (J.D.), Doctor of Law (J.D.) at New York University School of LawJapanese Language and Literature, Japanese Language and Literature at Kansai Gaidai UniversityBachelor of Arts (B.A.) International Studies; Japanese, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) International Studies; Japanese at University of Florida
Japanese
Github Skills (7)
evm10
smart-contracts10
solidity10
ethereum10
security10
erc209
documentation8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
OpenZeppelin/openzeppelin-contracts
Jul 2019 - Mar 2021
OpenZeppelin Contracts is a library for secure smart contract development.
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:8 commits, 10 PRs, 5 comments in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Ross primarily focused on improving the OpenZeppelin contracts, a library for secure smart contract development. Their contributions involved fixing typos, improving documentation formatting, and removing unused imports across multiple files related to ERC20 and ERC721. This work reflects a focus on code quality, clarity, and adherence to best practices within the Solidity smart contract ecosystem. The user also made a comment change to reflect a more common use case.
securesmart-contractethereumsecuritycontract
lexDAO/moloch
May 2020 - Nov 2020
👹 Moloch whose mind is pure machinery! Moloch whose blood is running money!
Contributions:583 commits, 10 PRs, 575 pushes in 5 months
machinerymolochbloodmindmoney
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