I currently work at Sierra as an Agent Strategist in the financial services vertical. Sierra helps businesses build better, more human customer experiences with AI. I help our financial institution customers design and deploy AI agents.

Agent Strategist

Sep 2026 - Present

• Help financial institution customers design and deploy AI agents.

Native Markets’ first product was the USDH stablecoin, a dollar on the Hyperliquid blockchain that made payments faster, cheaper, and instantly cross-border.

I led product and growth for USDH. We grew USDH from 0 to $100m supply in nine months then sold the rights to Coinbase. We’re currently conducting R&D for other products.

Product, Growth, and Operations

Oct 2025 - Present

• Led GTM for USDH.com, a Hyperliquid-specific fiat on- and off-ramp that reduced user transaction time from days to <1 hour. Two weeks after launching, the product had facilitated $24.5m in transaction volume and generated ~15 organic user endorsements on x.com with >430K collective impressions.
• Managed partner workstreams from commercial negotiation through launch and growth across three trading venues exclusively using USDH, generating >$8b in USDH trading volume.
• Won the specially-designated “USDH” (i.e., “US Dollar Hyperliquid”) ticker in a contentious Hyperliquid tokenholder vote (see Bloomberg coverage), beating large incumbents Paxos (partnered with PayPal) and Anchorage Digital (federal bank with $56b AUC). Won 70% of voting tokens, equivalent to $6.2b in economic value.
• Engineered software for production use including a Rust tool to retrieve data schemas for use with agentic AI, an external-facing Typescript API to calculate and report USDH supply, and Python services to automatically verify end-of-month partner payment calculations.

Uniswap is the inventor and developer of the most-used decentralized finance application, the Uniswap Protocol. The Uniswap Protocol has facilitated more than $4.5 trillion in lifetime trading volume.

Advisor

Oct 2025 - Dec 2025

• Continued advising on Uniswap Fee Switch research and strategy.

Strategy & Operations Lead

Oct 2024 - Oct 2025

• Led business analysis and pricing strategy for the Uniswap Fee Switch initiative, which transformed Uniswap Labs from a profitable, ~$100m ARR company valued at $1.66b to an entirely onchain, token-based business (the “UNI” token).
• Sourced, negotiated, and closed Uniswap’s second-largest commercial partnership ever (7-figure deal).
• Co-authored the Protocol Fee Discount Auction whitepaper, a new auction mechanism designed to improve liquidity-provider returns while generating protocol fees.

Chief of Staff to the President & COO

Nov 2023 - Oct 2024

• Managed the RFP selecting Unichain’s technology service provider, supported the 9-figure commercial negotiation, and led business analysis for the blockchain, which reached $1.4b in user funds within 12 months.
• Led business analysis and strategy for Unichain, Uniswap’s blockchain, which grew from 0 to $1.5b in user funds in 12 months.
• Supported the President and COO with presidential campaigns, incoming agency chairmen, and Members of Congress at a time when crypto was at the center of electoral politics, and Uniswap was one of the few indisputably successful onchain companies.
• Invented the Unichain Validation Network and co-authored the Unichain whitepaper (the only non-product/engineering employee to have ever co-authored a Uniswap whitepaper).

Circle (NYSE:CRCL) issues USDC, the largest US-based stablecoin with >$70b in circulation. I joined Circle’s public policy team at a time when stablecoins were emerging as a major area of focus for financial regulators.

Senior Analyst, Global Policy & Strategy

Jun 2022 - Jul 2023

• Reviewed cross-functional product design for policy-specific risks and provided feedback on behalf of the Policy team for over 10 non-public products.
• Wrote 16-page comment letter responding to the SEC’s Exchange Act Rule 3b-16 proposal to regulate DeFi exchanges.
• Managed and was primary author for comment letters on the Financial Stability Board’s proposal for global stablecoin regulation (23 pages), the Basel Committee’s consultation on the prudential treatment of bank cryptoasset exposures (12 pages), and the SEC’s proposed “Safeguarding” rule for cryptoasset custody (11 pages).
• Distributed a bi-weekly internal newsletter to approximately 25% of the company about market developments in traditional finance, crypto, and data privacy.

The U.S. CFPB regulates consumer financial products such as debit cards, mortgages, auto loans, etc. I joined the CFPB via its highly selective, two-year rotational fellowship for recent graduates (3% acceptance rate).

Director's Financial Analyst

Mar 2020 - Jun 2022

• Helped draft 33-page Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to implement Dodd-Frank Section 1033, the first Open Banking rule.
• Managed flagship “Consumer Financial Protection Week” event which featured 9 virtual webinars about the Bureau’s work, attracting approximately 2,000 total attendees.
• Co-authored the CFPB’s “Big Tech Information Orders” which sought market-monitoring information about consumer payments apps.
• Earned 2 CFPB Performance Awards for my work on the 2021 CARD Act Report and the 2020 Open Banking ANPR.

In Congress I learned about party politics, the policymaking process, and communications strategy.

Press Assistant

Jan 2020 - Mar 2020

• Managed the Congressman’s social media accounts, drafted approximately 15 posts per week across all platforms, created graphics and videos of the Congressman, tracked engagement and built strategies to increase reach.
• Produced weekly newsletter which featured an original, 600-word column on a hot topic of the week, highlighted local news stories that were relevant to the Congressman’s agenda, and summarized the Congressman’s activities in DC.

Staff Assistant

Sep 2019 - Jan 2020

• Prepared memos for Congressman’s political meetings with other Members including detailed personal bios and summaries of their proposed legislation.
• Drove the Congressman around DC, organized constituent tours, managed intern program.

I taught myself to code in 2023, and I work on personal projects in my free time. As my skills have improved, I’ve increasingly been able to use my software engineering skills at work.

I’m a huge fan of using AI, but most of my personal projects are hand-coded because I enjoy it! I can speak to the technical details and tradeoffs of every project on this page.

Open Source ContributionsCopy link

I’m most drawn to very high-performance data tooling. I really enjoy Rust.

• Kuva (750 stars): A high-performance charting CLI tool. I implemented parquet as an input data type, which required working with low-level Apache Arrow APIs. Adding parquet support made certain tasks 150x faster with 29x less memory usage.
• Charton (350 stars): An alternative Rust charting library I was comparing against Kuva. I added a performance optimization to Charton’s PNG rasterization backend which reduced runtime by 25% in extreme cases.
• Cryo (1,600 stars): The easiest way to extract blockchain data in bulk, published by Paradigm. I found and fixed a bug that was preventing accurate display of a setting. While a small bug, this represented a big win for me because it was the first time I proved I could read, comprehend, and operate on a production Rust codebase.

Personal ProjectsCopy link

• Islands: A tool that intelligently finds ads in podcasts, removes them, then reuploads the ad-free episode to an RSS feed. I run this for personal use for a few podcasts I like. Everyday it downloads new episodes, removes ads, and re-uploads them to the RSS feed, which I import directly to my podcast player.
• Schema Searcher: A tool to download BigQuery schema tools in bulk, for use in LLM context. This was more relevant when LLMs were less powerful in 2024 and 2025. This was the first genuinely useful Rust program I ever made. I wrote this during Uniswap’s Spring 2025 hackathon.

Native MarketsCopy link

I wrote external-facing services as well as internal tools that we used daily.

• Typescript API for supply stats. Shared contributions with a colleague. Queried RPCs for the USDH supply, did some transformations, and re-published the number for external consumption. Relied upon by Coinmarketcap. Had a nice feature I picked up from a colleague that raced different RPCs against each other and took the result from whatever returned first (made the tool fast).
• Python service for invoice generation. Queried RPCs for various account balances related to a partner. Used that data as inputs for an end-of-month payment calculation then automatically wrote the results to a PDF and CSV that were uploaded to our Head of Finance’s Google Drive.

UniswapCopy link

I co-authored two technical product whitepapers at Uniswap, the only non-engineering/product employee to have ever co-authored a Uniswap whitepaper.

• Protocol Fee Discount Auction. Co-authored with Columbia professor Ciamac Moallemi and LSE professor Alex Nezlobin. A new auction mechanism designed to improve liquidity-provider returns while generating protocol fees.
• Unichain. A new layer two blockchain with custom modifications/additions to the OP Stack. I invented the Unichain Validation Network (section 4 of the paper), which would have helped UNI token holders participate in the operation of the chain and increased the security of the chain. Unfortunately, the Unichain roadmap priorities shifted, and the Unichain Validation Network never shipped.

The outdoorsCopy link

I lived in Salt Lake City for three years and recreated in the mountains everyday. In particular, I love ski mountaineering and backcountry skiing.

CookingCopy link

I enjoy cooking, especially braised or smoked meats. I also enjoy fine food and wine, especially chilled red wine, minerally white wine, and all dessert wines.

WritingCopy link

Sometimes I write about what I’m working on or thinking about. I used to write mostly about crypto public policy, but most recently I’ve been writing about technical projects.

I attended Claremont McKenna College (CMC) in Southern California, graduating with a degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE), with honors, cum laude.

• Served as one of four students on the committee that created the CMC Strategy Report, a strategic review which served as the baseline for the next phase of CMC’s growth. The capital campaign based on the CMC Strategy Report raised almost $1.1bn, the first time a liberal arts college had raised over $1bn.
• Led the Free Food for Thought podcast, a career and leadership-focused podcast.
• Published research on California politics at the Rose Institute of State and Local Government.
• Won awards for CMC’s Model UN team, which was a top-10 nationally ranked team. During my Sophomore year I managed a seven-figure budget as Treasurer.