Wilson Cusack
Head Of Product - Base Chain at Coinbase
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWilson Cusack is a product and engineering leader with 11 years of experience shaping crypto infrastructure and consumer products, currently leading Base Chain product at Coinbase. He progressed through technical and product roles at Coinbase—from software engineer to Head of Product—blending deep engineering rigor with strategic product vision for blockchain platforms. Wilson has entrepreneurial experience founding and leading startups in fintech and global trade, bringing operator-level insight into go-to-market and user growth. His background in computer science from Brown and interdisciplinary studies in PPE gives him a pragmatic, systems-level approach to complex technical and regulatory problems. Notably, he has moved fluidly between hands-on engineering and executive leadership, a profile that helps translate low-level protocol decisions into customer-facing features.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
The Island SchoolBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science at Brown UniversityNorthPointe ChristianBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Politics, Philosophy, and Economics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Politics, Philosophy, and Economics at The King's College
English, Spanish
Github Skills (92)
tooling10
coinbase10
testing10
erc115510
eip10
abi10
crawler10
smart-contracts10
inline-assembly10
portable10
wallet10
javascript10
solidity10
modular10
rust10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
wilsoncusack/21-lottery
Nov 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:118 commits, 116 pushes, 5 branches in 5 days
with-backed/backed-protocol
Jul 2021 - May 2022
Contributions:141 commits, 6 PRs, 6 pushes in 9 months
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