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    Paul Cowgill

    Paul Cowgill

    web3 engineering + product leader. prev: Head of Product @foundation-labs

    Software Engineer Chicago Harvard University '12
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    Experience
    Foundation Labs
    Foundation Labs
    Head of Product 2021 - 2023 (almost 2 years)
    Built Foundation 0 -> 1 with >9,000 ETH in all-time revenue as a primary marketplace for NFTs by (1) developing the version that reached product-market fit as 1 of the... more first 3 engineers and then (2) creating and leading the Product team.
    Senior Software Engineer 2020 - 2021 (about 1 year)
    ● Wrote robust, secure, upgradable smart contracts that power Foundation
    ● Created efficient, reliable, and readable middleware APIs for the UI layer to interact with deployed... more contracts
    ● Built expressive, delightful consumer experiences on both web and mobile
    ● Wrote efficient, performant, and maintainable code that allowed for rapid iteration
    ● Played a key role in shaping the product and influenced design choices and strategy
    Paul Cowgill
    Paul Cowgill
    Senior Crypto / Ethereum / Blockchain / Web 3 Engineer 2017 - 2020 (almost 3 years)
    ● Audited smart contracts for Decentraland, OpenZeppelin for the OpenZeppelin 2.0 release, and a well-known stablecoin project
    ● Received grants from the Ethereum Foundation... more and Gnosis
    ● Built, tested, and deployed upgradable Solidity smart contracts for Dharma on Ethereum
    ● Built an open-source library for building native mobile Ethereum apps
    ● Used ethers.js to build flows for interacting with smart contracts from React and node environments
    ● Delivered multiple software projects for clients using React Native, React, Serverless, AWS, and Node.js
    Edyn
    Edyn
    CTO 2015 - 2017 (over 1 year)
    ● Architected and wrote the original back end (Node.js + AWS), website, and firmware
    ● Led the hiring and management of our entire technical team, consisting of mobile,... more back-end, firmware, data science, and front-end engineers (both full time and contractors)
    ● Starting with a Kickstarter campaign, successfully created two solar-powered connected hardware products and shipped ~10,000 units to Home Depot and direct to customers via our website
    ● Continuously set Edyn’s feature roadmap
    VP Software Engineering 2014 - 2015 (over 1 year)
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    Edyn, Paul Cowgill, Foundation Labs
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    Built Foundation 0 -> 1 with >9,000 ETH in all-time revenue (>80,000 ETH in all-time GMV) as a primary marketplace for NFTs by (1) developing the version that reached product-market fit as 1 of the first 3 engineers and then (2) creating and leading the Product team.

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    Node.js Google Analytics Web Development Javascript Git Github Start-Ups Startup Founder Business Strategy Product Development Product Management Data Analysis Databases User Experience Design Agile Software Develoment HTML Amazon Web Services PostgreSQL Amazon RDS SQL Amazon ECS AWS Continuous Integration Unit Testing Integration Testing Design Patterns Software Architecture Linux Functional Testing Monitoring Serverless UI/UX Design React Native React.js Microservices Backend Development Frontend Development Full Stack Development Mobile Development iOS Development Docker Blockchain Adobe Illustrator Android API Architect Audit Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) CSS Engineering Heroku Management NodeJS npm Redis SDK Security Software Software Development SSL Statistics Web Technologies Agile Agile methodology Product Leadership Product Requirements Document - PRD
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