What attracted me to Kraken was my interest in Bitcoin and I had a great opportunity to join right as the bull market of 2021 was getting started. I was first introduced to Bitcoin and Ethereum in 2017 and had been following it for quite sometime. By the time I started at Kraken I was already running my own node and my interest in the space was at an all-time high.

But the thing about Kraken is that they're an exchange so, they don't do a ton of open source work (and most crypto protocols are open-source). However, when they announced that they would be [funding someone](https://blog.kraken.com/post/11226/kraken-commits-to-funding-open-source-rust-bitcoin-development/) to work on the open-source Rust Bitcoin library I got really excited to support that initiative.

During this effort I partnered with industry veterans like Pierre Rochard, Pete Rizzo, and Andrew Poelstra to source and hire the right prospective candidate. This was a unique search for me because I had never hired anyone for open-source work that would be completely unaffiliated with the company. I'm extremely proud to have worked on this because it's not everyday that a non-developer has an opportunity to make a contribution to the Bitcoin network.

Kraken made an announcement about the hire in this [blog post](https://blog.kraken.com/post/12873/kraken-funds-full-time-bitcoin-rust-maintainer/).

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Kraken

Talent @ Adobe

An R Shiny app that I built to support impacted colleagues by unfortunate layoffs across the Adobe TA team in February 2023.

Job Search Resource

Joined just prior to the launch of Magic Leap's first product - the ML1. Led hiring for multiple technical organizations and relocated from Florida to California in order to open up a new office for the Human-centered AI (HCAI) team reporting to the Head of AI.

Lead Technical Recruiter

Led recruiting for the Crypto engineering organization during an explosive growth phase - handled all aspects of recruiting for the Staking, Payments, Custody, and NFT teams.

Talent Partner, Crypto

During my first stint at Adobe I led recruiting for Adobe Research and the Emerging Products Group.

Built the founding team of Scientists for Computational Photography luminary and new VP, Marc Levoy. 

Other technical areas of focus were in the domains of NLP, Computer Vision, and Generative Imaging (GAN's).

Technical Talent Partner, AI and Machine Learning

Leading hiring for Adobe Express and Search & Sensei (AI/ML) organizations. Beyond recruiting responsibilities I lead internal projects with a proclivity towards identifying ways to better leverage recruiting data - learning R has helped tremendously in this respect.

Talent, Digital Media

President's cup recipient 2017
Managed recruiting for the Walt Disney account (west coast operations)

channing

2023