Celestia Labs
New York, NY (Remote) · Mar 2022 – PresentProduct Manager
Feb 2026 – Present- Ran discovery for agentic-commerce products through user interviews and prototypes; recommended which ideas to pursue or kill.
- Co-designed an agent micropayments scheme on x402 for paid content at the CDN edge and built its prototype site. Edge servers verify each payment locally against one threshold public key with no chain round-trip; a rollup settles in batches.
- Specced a cross-chain credit product; researched agent auditability and how exchanges digitize market infrastructure.
Product Team Lead, Interop
May 2025 – Feb 2026- Owned the spec and engineering roadmap for Lazybridging, Celestia's cross-chain bridging protocol. Managed 3 engineers, hiring 2.
- Led 2 of them building a stablecoin solver for instant transfers onto Eden, Celestia's agentic-commerce chain; paused it pre-launch after my analysis found the interop market saturated, and recommended pivoting the team to cross-chain credit.
- Authored and implemented CIP-45 in Go and shipped it to mainnet: single-signature token transfers routed through Celestia to a destination chain, now used by bot.fun on Eden.
- Authored and led the design of CIP-46, shipped in the same upgrade: on-chain ZK verification of cross-chain messages, an alternative to multisig trust.
Product Team Lead (Engineering Manager & Tech Lead), Evolve (formerly Rollkit)
Nov 2023 – May 2025- Managed 5 engineers (hiring, 1:1s, performance reviews, promotions), reporting to the Head of Engineering. As tech lead and release owner, set the engineering roadmap for the Evolve stack, a Go framework for launching custom blockchains.
- Deprioritized fraud proofs to ship production full nodes first, then added EVM support so EVM chains could launch on the stack.
- Drove adoption by VeVe's Disney-licensed Collect chain and XO Markets; Eden later launched on the stack.
- Ran the handover of Evolve's code, maintainership and users to Binary Builders, keeping Celestia a neutral data layer.
Protocol Engineer, Rollkit
Mar 2022 – Nov 2023- Joined Rollkit, a rollup framework, as its third engineer; built the core of its node in Go: sequencer, block sync and exchange, execution interface, and data-availability integration.
- Designed P2P sync so full nodes follow the chain with low-latency soft confirmations before data-availability finality.
- Wrote the spec (ADR-009, proposed) and merged prototype for non-interactive state fraud proofs, based on an academic paper.