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Bo was the first hire at Chronosphere (unicorn) and infrastructure engineer at Uber and Capsule8 (acquired). His focus is on database, distributed systems and software infrastructure with experience developing M3DB (OSS time series database).

Peter consulted for Ernst & Young’s Strategy and Innovation divisions. His focus has been on GtM strategy, new product launch/scale, organizational restructuring, and synergy capture with experience connecting partnerships and joint-builds in DeFi.

Wenwei delivered database platforms at Paradigm 4 to leading pharmaceutical companies identifying biomarkers for diseases including COVID-19. At Avitide (acquired by Repligen), Wenwei led a team creating biologics databases. Wenwei's academic research and software tools have been cited 800+ times and helped secure $3.7M+ funding from NSF.

Derek was a distinguished engineer at EdgeCast CDN where he spent the last 11+ years building and scaling the caching and compute platforms. During his time there, he helped it grow into a global platform delivering terabits per second of data and billions of client requests per day across hundreds of data centers. Prior to EdgeCast, Derek worked for Epson Research and Development implementing face and object recognition, detection, and alignment algorithms.

Nico was a Staff Engineer at Twilio where he helped build their WebRTC based real-time video product. He has also been at AWS, where he spent time working on the virtualisation stack that is the foundation of EC2. He started as an embedded engineer doing low level type of work: Linux kernel development, boot-loaders, high performance networking and IoT.

Alex was a software engineer at Amazon for 5 years where he mostly worked on various Kindle initiatives, including Wordwise and a knowledge graph for books serving more than 2 million users. The following 4 years he spent in the startup world building ML and blockchain powered products. His focus is on distributed systems, infrastructure and AI.

Zhengyang was a Staff Engineer at Momenta where he led the design and development of a sophisticated large-scale simulation workflow system. He also built a data product that empowered ML engineers to search and visualize data more efficiently. Prior to Momenta, Zhengyang worked at Uber, where he focused on building logging and metrics platforms as an Infrastructure Engineer. He also worked at Goldman Sachs and Bloomberg.

Stephanie is a leader in office operations and human resources, driven by her passion to steer organizations towards their strategic objectives. Prior to joining Polymer, she played a vital role in crafting and implementing processes to enhance overall efficiency for founders and C-suite executives. Stephanie brings to Polymer a specialized focus on the integration of human capital, organizational structure, and process management.

Forrest brings over a decade of HR expertise, helping high-growth tech companies, from startups to industry giants, in establishing robust HR frameworks, fostering high-performance cultures, and crafting holistic people strategies. He played a pivotal role in scaling Kabam from 250 to 1200+ employees across 5 countries, and contributed to Twilio's global expansion across 6 product lines.

Tommy has 9+ years of technical product related work. He pulls from experience as a Technical Advisory Consultant at E&Y specializing in Systems Implementation and IT transformation for the Financial Services sector, VP at Morgan Stanley in the Finance division overseeing their Vendor Risk Management platform, and as a Product Manager leading products aimed at reducing carbon emissions in the maritime shipping industry, ultimately removing the equivalent of ~20,000 cars from the road.

Jack’s professional experience spans roles at Amazon and Capital One, where he contributed significantly to enhancing ad-targeting, keyword recommendation generation, and building out automated testbed infrastructures. Before entering the industry, he earned both a BS and an MS from Georgia Tech in Computer Science. His Master’s Thesis delved into the application of machine learning fundamentals to Branch Prediction and the development of compilers using LLVM. Jack is dedicated to honing his skills as a versatile developer, with a particular enthusiasm for low-level programming.

Devain brings over five years of experience in the crypto space, focused on interoperability infrastructure. Most recently at Socket, he was instrumental in building the product marketing and growth functions that led to the exponential growth of their B2C exchange, achieving a monthly volume of $500 million. Additionally, Devain successfully expanded the B2B ecosystem, collaborating with over 80 protocols across various sectors such as DeFi (including GMX, Synthetix, and Kwenta), wallets (Metamask, Coinbase Wallet, and Rainbow), and portfolio management (Zapper, Zerion).

Prior to joining Polymer, Michael spent six years at Cisco and NBC where he gained significant experience in building scalable systems depended on by thousands of employees and customers. In his role as a front-end developer at both companies, Michael not only designed and built intuitive dashboards for visualizing sales data but also made existing apps more robust and user-friendly by implementing internationalization and pluralization. This is in addition to several side projects and businesses of his own, including a music production and sample pack site with thousands of customers.

Before Polymer, Raunak was a solidity engineer for a collateralized stablecoin protocol, where he built smart contracts that secure tens of millions of dollars in TVL. Before entering crypto, Raunak spent 2 years as a full stack engineer for multiple early stage startups, where he shipped and iterated on products to secure users. Raunak completed his engineering studies at UC Berkeley.

Liz joins Polymer as General Counsel from Turnkey, a developer platform for non-custodial, private key management. Previously, she was General Counsel at Bison Trails, where she led the company through it's 2021 acquisition by Coinbase. Afterwards, she stayed on to oversee the integration and rebranding of Coinbase Cloud, while leading the product and commercial legal functions as AGC. Liz spent a number of years at Goldman Sachs before leaving to join the crypto industry in early 2018, as head of legal and compliance for BlockTower Capital. She remains passionately focused on helping teams build revolutionary and innovative global technologies.

Joseph comes from Outlier Ventures, a Web3 native accelerator, where he focused on early-stage investments, specifically on zk and DeFi projects. Before that, he worked as an analyst at a crypto prop trading firm, providing actionable market data to support traders on the floor. He brings his passion for DeFi and commitment to Web3 to Polymer to initiate the BD function.

After graduating in biochemistry, Ian began writing trading bots that exploited the market inefficiencies present in web3. Later, he joined Vulcanize where he worked across many domains including EIP-1559 and the development of a go-ethereum fork for indexing Ethereum state, and research into state store and state commitment separation in the cosmos-sdk (ADR-038 and ADR-040). Ian recently worked at Laconic Network, a caching and indexing layer for blockchain data that preserves the verifiability of chain-derived data models through arbitrary sets of transformations.

David joins Polymer as the Community Lead bringing experience in community management from the Kadena and Sui ecosystems. David has always been focused on creating engaged, excited and inclusive communities and looks forward to bringing that passion to Polymer.

Odell was a Software Engineer at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure focused on reducing latency and implementing new capabilities for their virtualization stack, where he gained extensive experience working on hypervisors and virtual machines. Before graduating Carnegie Mellon University to work as a software engineer full-time, he secured internships with Oracle, VMware, and UPS. Odell has a passion for all things computers with special attention to distributed systems and decentralized applications.

Harry combines his understanding of crypto tech and passion for results-driven creativity to his role as the marketing lead of Polymer. Before Polymer, he delivered 0-1 marketing & GTM strategies for various crypto protocols at an Asia based VC / incubator.