Ryan Gentry
Chief Executive Officer at Bitcoin Infrastructure Acquisition Corp
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Gentry is a CEO and business development leader with seven years of experience scaling Bitcoin infrastructure and commercial ecosystems, most recently leading Bitcoin Infrastructure Acquisition Corp after senior BD roles at Lightning Labs. He built and scaled partnerships, product go-to-market, and developer engagement for Lightning Network technology, transitioning from technical research at Multicoin Capital and engineering roles at Intel. Ryan blends hands-on engineering training (M.S. in ECE, B.S. in Aerospace) with venture and market-focused strategy, enabling technically complex crypto projects to reach broader markets. Based in Austin, he’s known for translating protocol-level innovation into practical commercial channels and for navigating both research-driven investment teams and fast-moving product organizations.
7 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering Telecommunications/Controls Engineering, M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering Telecommunications/Controls Engineering at Georgia Institute of TechnologyB.S. Aerospace Engineering, B.S. Aerospace Engineering at The University of TexasBusiness Foundations Certificate, Business Foundations Certificate at McCombs School of Business
Spanish
Github Skills (26)
lightning10
wallet10
taxonomy10
lightning-network10
peer-to-peer10
decentralization10
bitcoin10
bolt10
cryptocurrency10
c-lightning10
cryptography10
blockchain10
daemon10
python9
specification8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
lightninglabs/docs.lightning.engineering
Oct 2020 - Jun 2022
Building lapps, running lnd, and more
Contributions:15 reviews, 152 commits, 17 PRs in 1 year 8 months
lndlightningc-lightninglightning-network
ryanthegentry/crypto-archives
May 2019 - Sep 2019
Your one-stop shop for all things crypto.
Contributions:11 commits, 5 pushes in 4 months
stopjavascriptcryptoshopcryptocurrency
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