Coinbase is the leading bitcoin company in the world - #1 in market share amongst consumers, merchants, and developers. We make bitcoin easy to use and secure for the masses. Founded in early 2012, the company currently has over 1.8 million consumers with bitcoin wallets (about 10x growth year over year), 37,000 merchants signed up (including Wikipedia, Time Magazine, Square, Dell.com, Overstock.com, reddit, and others), and 7,000 developers building on our platform. Coinbase has raised a total of $106 million from DFJ Growth, Andreessen Horowitz, Union Square Ventures, and others and is available in 19 countries around the world. The company is based in San Francisco and has 58 employees.
Hiring for DevOps, Data and Security roles in San Francisco @ www.coinbase.com/careers
Director @ Designed cloud environments and migrated company off of 3rd party providers into hardened AWS VPCs. Developed modern, secure, 100% dockerized deploy pipeline with consensus based deploys that protect our environment from human and technical single point failures. Implemented realtime streaming access, analytics and anomaly detection covering 1B+ daily events. Building Infra, Devops, Ops and Security Teams to scale Coinbase to the moon! From September 2014 to Present (1 year 4 months) Data Scientist @ Builder. Data Scientist in CTO's office.
Founded the first IT Data Science team in the federal gov't. Deliveries included:
- introduced new data science methods to the agency
- redesigned an open source institutional search pipeline built around cloud & elasticsearch
- designed new data systems for the astronaut office
- analyzing the "fingerprint of success" across every nasa employee, ever
- uploading nasa's first controlled data to the GovCloud
- delivering realtime infrastructure for analyzing all time series data returned from Mars From February 2013 to September 2014 (1 year 8 months) Systems Engineer @ OPALS Space Station Systems Engineering Lead
- designed and flew NASA's first operation laser communication satellite in LEO
- managed all interfaces with International Space Station
- successfully integrated first external payload to fly on SpaceX's (CRS3) first berth with ISS
- delivered all structural, electrical, thermal, environment, robotic, astronaut and software interfaces From 2009 to March 2013 (4 years) Software Engineer @ Developing navigation planning software for the Dawn and Rosetta missions along with mobile applications for the Cassini project. From 2009 to January 2011 (2 years) Founder @ Colorado web technology club. Connected hackers with experts and projects. From 2008 to 2010 (2 years) Co-Founder @ Communication automation in Y Combinator Summer 2009. From 2009 to 2009 (less than a year) Founder @ Developing mass-communication tools for schools. From 2006 to 2009 (3 years) Constellation Program Systems Engineering @ Architecting NASA's return to the moon including manned vehicles & lunar habitats. From 2008 to 2008 (less than a year) Research Assistant @ Developed algorithms for spaceweather prediction and spacecraft solar calibration. From 2006 to 2008 (2 years)
BS, Aerospace Engineering @ University of Colorado at BoulderSoftware Systems Cert, Graduate Software Systems Engineering, 4.0 @ Stanford University From 2012 to 2013 Summer '09 @ Y Combinator From 2009 to 2009 Rob Witoff is skilled in: Systems Engineering, Python, Algorithms, System Architecture, Software Design, Software Engineering, Matlab, Simulations, Linux, Entrepreneurship, Software Development, Java, Programming, Data Science, Machine Learning
Websites:
http://pspct.com,
http://jpl.nasa.gov