NiftyOps
Founder
Achievements
Grew BlockJoy from $0 to $2M ARR on bare-metal blockchain infrastructure. Wrote BlockVisor in Rust. About 80% under cloud.
Two acquisitions: Sproutling sold to Mattel (2016). Rupture sold to Electronic Arts (2008).
Inventor on two granted BlockJoy patents (US 11,847,511 and US 12,136,004) and two pending.
Helium: VP of Product and Technology. Coverage from 0 to 425+ US cities by late 2019. First hardware SKU shipped in 9 months. Rust on the device.
Lumeo: no-code computer vision live on 50+ sites and 500+ cameras. Custom ML deploy time cut from months to days.
General Manager of Sproutling inside Mattel. Team of 90. Fisher-Price wearable in retail in 2017.
Sproutling: CES 2015 Best of Innovation in Wearable Technologies. TIME 25 Best Inventions of 2015. First two production shipments sold out. Raised $6.5M.
Raised $11M for BlockJoy (Gradient Ventures, Draper Dragon, Active Capital, and others).
Rushes.cc (2026): distributed video encoding on bare metal. Replaced Coconut.
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