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Work Experience

• Founder, Torpedo Wallet

  Oct, 2023 - Present

  Torpedo gives users tools to both manage and analyze their digital footprint as well as create a privacy preserving protocol that segregates accounts and acts like a digital firewall to keep you safe.

  • technology: Rust, Tauri, Typescript, React

• Co-Founder, Get Magnet

  Aug, 2023 - Present

  GetMagnet is an AI powered marketing group specializing in cold email and lead acquisition and landing page conversion. Rudi has been working to enable and assist with Fullstack Engineering / Product Development / Infrastructure / Architecture / Strategy / Graphic Design and fulfillment.

• Resident, Sozu Haus Australia 2024

  May, 2024 - May, 20247 days

  A 6-day hacker house and mini-accelerator in Coolgardie, Australia

• Hacker & Prize Winner, ETHGlobal Sydney 2024

  May, 2024 - May, 20244 days

  Prizewinner at the premier Ethereum Worldwide hackathon event.

• Hacker & Prize Winner, Antalpha ZK Hacker House Chiang Mai

  Apr, 2023 - Apr, 202322 days

  Hacker house focussing on Zero Knowledge Proofs and their application. Daily lectures on subjects like Plonk and technology demonstrations.

  • Won 1st prize for Zrclib - a ZK toolkit for adding more privacy to the EVM

• Technical Lead / Software Architect, Hydraswap

  Feb, 2022 - Nov, 202210 months

  Rudi was responsible for leading a team of 5 developers to successfully deliver a decentralized exchange to mainnet.

  • Project Management
  • Smart Contract Development
  • Software Architecture
  • Team Management
  • Solana Mainnet Deploymet
  • Deployment systems
  • Anchor Framework
  • Scheduling work for Blockchain and Frontend teams
  • Technical delivery timeline negotiation
  • Created wrappers for sharing core wasm logic between blockchain and frontend
  • Optimizing developer workflow through tool creation

  Challanges

  • Monorepo management in the context of a blockchain project
  • Development of a highly complex system, mathematically and otherwise
  • Dealing with non- english speaking team members
  • Managing refactoring based on incorrect requirements

  Technology

  • Solana
  • Anchor
  • Rust
  • Typescript
  • Wasm

• Senior Cat & CatBoard member, Mutantcats DAO

  Oct, 2021 - Feb, 20225 months

  As a "SeniorCat" in charge of technology Rudi was a key member of the MutantCats DAO. The MutantCats NFT project was released in October 2021 and shortly afterwards formed one of the first NFT DAO projects, gaining hype on social media. However, the original DEV team began to take a step back from the project. The Mutant Cats DAO formed governance structures and eventually taking controlof the project on behalf of the token holders. During this period Rudi developed several technological initiatives including:

  • Rescuing the project's fractionalized NFT treasury from the original developers
  • A Hackathon https://mutantdevs.com/
  • An NFT marketplace
  • A NFT swap contract
  • https://github.com/MutantDAO

  Skills:

  • Solidity Smart Contract Development
  • Web3 development
  • Delivering Consensus
  • Working within a DAO structure

• Principle Engineer, Sifchain

  Oct, 2020 - Jun, 20219 months

  Rudi was brought on to rapidly build a frontend UI for a decentralized exchange and token bridge. He expanded his role to include frontend architecture managing and building out testing infrastructure as well providing expertise and general infrastructure for Sifchain and the frontend team.

  Challenges overcome:

  • The quirks of working with a decentralized application,
  • Extreme timelines
  • Integrating multiple blockchains
  • Working with team members of various experience levels on a difficult time sensitive project

  Technologies

  • web3
  • cosmos-sdk
  • evm
  • solidity
  • truffle
  • cosmjs
  • keplr integration
  • metamask integration

• Project Core Contributer, Blitz.js

  Feb, 2020 - Jul, 20205 months

  Rudi was an early core contributer to this project. After being disappointed with GraphQL which was the status quo at the time, Brandon and Rudi came up with the idea of using Typescript to act as an interface and directly connect the frontend to the backend which has since been emulated many times with projects such as tRPC. Rudi wrote the original Next.js node compiler and file watcher implementation.

• Senior Frontend Engineer / Test Engineer, Thorchain

  Oct, 2019 - Dec, 20193 months

  Rudi Contributed to the Thorchain team as a frontend and testing consultant on the BEPSwap project. He built part of the intiial interface helped with user experience design around asset selection and set up frontend test coverage after discovering regression bugs were slowing down development.

• Project Founder / Maintainer, PDSL

  Jul, 2019 - Dec, 20195 months

  An expressive declarative language for composing predicates in TypeScript or JavaScript. An example of writing a simple compiler. Rudi delivered a talk on this idea at both Berlin and Vienna JS

• Team Lead / Fullstack Software Engineer, Blockbid

  Nov, 2017 - Sep, 201811 months

  Consulting as Team Lead to build out their cryptocurrency trading platform, Rudi coordinated a team of developers to put together prototypical front end interface and design system. He then worked on the backend team assembling tooling and communication to prepare for supporting an event sourced architecture via a custom messaging adaptor before focussing on the frontend team in order to service high pressure deadlines. Challenges included dealing with extreme deadlines, product pivots, security matters, offshore teams.

  Related Tech:

  • RabbitMQ
  • amqplib
  • RxJS
  • GraphQL
  • ApolloClient
  • ApolloServer
  • Node
  • React
  • Redux

• Contract Senior Software Engineer, Seek

  Oct, 2016 - Mar, 20175 months

  Development and maintenance of a large SOA stack for Australia's biggest online employment marketplace. Working primarily on the core search experience, achievements have included extreme performance improvements, creating responsive experiences for existing functionality and coming up with a novel way to manage forms.

• Senior Software Engineer, Marketplacer

  May, 2014 - Sep, 20151 year 5 months

  Maintaining and developing / refactoring a large legacy e-commerce Angular JS, Ruby on Rails application.

  At Marketplacer, Rudi was recognised as a Javascript leader and acted as a strong advocate for bringing in modern javascript workflows and using sensible tools for client-side deployment. Even though Rudi was brought to the team specifically for his AngularJS skills, by March 2015 it became clear Angular JS was not a very good fit for the way in which JavaScript was being used at the company. He led a small team to create a React based isomorphic prototype of the companies search functionality to demonstrate ways in which React could be used within the context of the Exchange Group’s tech stack to speed up both development as well as page rendering. On the strength of the prototype (which was delivered under budget) a React with Webpack approach was designed and implemented and as a consequence Exchange Group is now migrating away from AngularJS and is serving ES2015/React based code in production.

  Skills: JavaScript, React, Webpack, Node JS, Docker, Flux, Alt, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Angular v1, TDD / BDD, Rspec, Jasmine, Capybarra, Software Architecture, Managing a large legacy codebase, Agile Workflows, Git

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