Will Martino
Founder & President at Kadena LLC
New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWill Martino is a founder and technical leader with 12 years of experience building high-performance distributed systems and blockchain platforms, currently leading Kadena as Founder & President. He combines hands-on Haskell engineering expertise—from developing a BFT consensus prototype at JPMorgan to back-end work on the Pact smart contract language—with product-level vision for secure, enterprise-ready blockchain stacks. His background spans quantitative research at the SEC and Yale, applied fractal-geometry time-series work, and production engineering on data platforms, giving him a rare mix of rigorous research instincts and pragmatic software delivery. Based in New Haven, he prioritizes smart, curious teams and has repeatedly translated deep technical ideas into robust, mission-critical systems that bridge academia, finance, and enterprise software.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Economics and Mathematics B.A. Mathematics and Economics Fractal Geometry, Economics and Mathematics B.A. Mathematics and Economics Fractal Geometry at Yale University
Github Skills (5)
smart-contracts10
pact10
back-end-development10
blockchain10
sqlite9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
kadena-io/pact
Dec 2016 - Feb 2018
The Pact Smart Contract Language
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:99 commits, 6 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Will primarily contributed to the development of the Pact smart contract language, focusing on the back-end implementation. Their work involved adding typechecking capabilities to modules, incorporating dependencies for type migration, and integrating SQLite for persistence. Additionally, the user was involved in cleaning up the base and command types, and the construction of a simple command. The user also implemented changes related to command handling and processing within the server.
smart-contractspactblockchain
buckie/scheme48
Jan 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:66 commits, 31 pushes, 10 branches in 19 days
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