Summary
Thomas Hartman is a pragmatic software engineer and entrepreneur with 18 years of experience building and leading teams for trading, crypto, and data products. Currently skunkworks at op.energy and founder of StandardCrypto, he combines deep Bitcoin and cypherpunk expertise with hands-on engineering—authoring the op.energy whitepaper and contributing to Haskoin-adjacent projects. He has served as CTO and technical lead at startups like MarketPsych and Clicker, shepherding product pivots, remote engineering teams, and a Reuters data syndication deal. A longtime functional-programming and security advocate, he brings Haskell experience from institutional trading environments to product-focused implementations. Equally comfortable with product strategy and low-level technical tradeoffs, he favors hard problems with clear business impact. Outside of core roles he repeatedly ships small infrastructure and developer tools (e.g., Patch-Tag) that reflect his bias toward durable, pragmatic solutions.
18 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., English, B.A., English at Columbia University in the City of New York
German, Spanish