William Wolf
Managing Partner at Arche Capital
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolWilliam Wolf is a managing partner and seasoned technology leader with 17 years of experience building and scaling distributed systems, payments platforms, and blockchain infrastructure. He has led engineering teams from early startups to enterprise scale—growing Tilt’s engineering org from 1 to 30+ and later managing payments engineering at Airbnb—before moving into crypto-focused investing and operations at Polychain and Arche Capital. A hands-on engineer by training, he contributed to the widely used bitcore Bitcoin stack, improving P2P messaging and block/transaction filtering to strengthen privacy and robustness. He combines deep systems and security instincts with business and regulatory experience (PCI, e-money licensing) to deliver reliable, compliant products that move money and value. Based in New York, he pairs technical rigor from a Computer Engineering background with a long track record of turning complex protocol work into practical, production-grade systems.
17 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Tilt - W12, Tilt - W12 at Y CombinatorBS Computer Engineering Computer Science Music Math, BS Computer Engineering Computer Science Music Math at Virginia Tech
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Github Skills (16)
bitcore10
bitcoin10
javascript10
bitcoins10
merkle-tree10
bloom-filter10
blockchain10
testing10
nodejs9
external6
functional-programming6
dynamic6
perl6
signal6
optimization6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
bitpay/bitcore
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
A full stack for bitcoin and blockchain-based applications
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:28 commits, 1 PR, 34 comments in 12 days
Contributions summary:William primarily worked on the `bitcore` repository, focusing on core blockchain and Bitcoin-related functionalities. Their contributions centered around improving the peer-to-peer (P2P) communication layer by adding events like `peerconnect`, `peerready`, and `peerdisconnect`. They also implemented and integrated new message types related to Bloom filters and Merkle blocks, enhancing the system's ability to filter transaction data and handle block-related information. Furthermore, they addressed an issue with optional parameters in version messages, improving the overall robustness of the codebase.
full-stackcryptocurrencyblockchainbitcoin
throughnothing/purescript-crypt-nacl
Nov 2016 - Jun 2019
TweetNaCL Wrapper for Purescript
Contributions:25 commits, 5 PRs, 29 pushes in 2 years 7 months
purescripttweetnacl
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