Washington Sanchez
Product Lead at Kraken Digital Asset Exchange
Queensland, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolWashington Sanchez is a product lead with 12 years of experience building privacy-first, crypto-native marketplaces and tooling, currently leading Kraken’s NFT marketplace and onchain product efforts. He combines deep technical chops—from contributing to Bitcoin tooling like libbitcoin-explorer to backend work on OpenBazaar’s Go daemon—with hands-on product leadership gained co-founding OB1 and shipping the Haven mobile product. His background is unusually interdisciplinary: a PhD-trained researcher who moved from biomedical imaging and nanoparticle delivery into decentralized commerce, bringing rigorous experimentation and user-focused design to complex crypto systems. Washington is a vocal crypto-optimist and active open-source contributor, known for practical integrations such as offline transaction flows and deterministic wallet features. Based in Queensland, Australia, he blends startup grit with academic discipline to ship privacy-preserving, usable blockchain products.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Biotechnology Innovation, Biotechnology, Business, Biotechnology Innovation, Biotechnology, Business at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)
English, Spanish
Github Skills (25)
api-rest10
scripting10
api-design10
restful-api10
command-line-interface10
bitcoin10
bash10
bitcoins10
script10
go10
command-line10
sh10
rest-api10
shell10
cli10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
OpenBazaar/openbazaar-go
Aug 2016 - Apr 2020
OpenBazaar 2.0 Server Daemon in Go
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:211 commits, 23 PRs, 107 pushes in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Washington appears to have primarily worked on adding and improving the functionality of the OpenBazaar 2.0 Server Daemon in Go. They added the ability to add posts, fixed issues related to timestamp handling, and improved slug generation. They also made several API-related changes, including fixes to the PUT endpoint and adding documentation comments. Furthermore, the user refactored the post structure, including the replacement of the `reference` object with `tags`.
golangdaemonopenbazaar
libbitcoin/libbitcoin-explorer
Mar 2014 - May 2014
Bitcoin Command Line Tool
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:39 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Washington primarily focused on developing a command-line tool for Bitcoin. Their contributions involved creating a user-friendly interface using Zenity, implementing functions for keypair generation, stealth address creation, and multisignature transactions. The user expanded the tool's functionality, incorporating features like QR code generation, deterministic wallet seed management, and offline transaction creation. They demonstrated a strong understanding of the `sx` command-line tool, integrating its capabilities into the GUI.
command-line-tooljqbitcoincommand-linecli
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