Company Info for pragma.com | Icebreaker

Company Info for pragma.com | Icebreaker

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Vincent Engelmann

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Passionate, product-minded Engineering Manager focused on bringing SaaS companies toward more revenue through a combination of personnel management and software engineering best practices, while leveraging AI to its fullest capabilities.

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I co-founded Kadena with Will Martino to revolutionize enterprise blockchain solutions. Our goal was clear: build an enterprise blockchain with lots of throughput AND a smart contract language that can do anything a company needs and no more. While private blockchains didn’t succeed, we searched and found a solution to a public Proof of Work blockchain that is capable of scaling unlimited. Today, Kadena delivers the only scalable Proof of Work blockchain that can scale on demand allowing unlimited throughput. Our blockchain is perfectly equipped for - tokenization of any asset - fast settlement of transactions - providing unlimited throughput for increasing demand From my early days at Apple in the 90s to co-founding Kadena, my mission has always been to push the boundaries of technology. At the turn of the millennium, I was drawn to New York by the Silicon Alley media boom, which quickly led me to the world of exchange and trading software. Over 15 years, I developed exchange backbones and trading algorithms, culminating in building JPMorgan's equity algorithmic trading desk. I developed Juno for JPMorgan, a distributed ledger supporting hundreds of nodes with consistent performance.

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Engineering leader, technologist and architect with extensive experience building and leading engineering organizations as well as delivering scalable cloud native solutions in the financial, crypto and digital consumer space.

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10+ years of engineering management (17 years in FinTech) in mission critical environment like Algo-Trading, Equity Trading responsible for trading 150 millions shares daily Responsible for technology portfolio management contains over 10+ applications shared between multiple teams Led and delivered multiple cross functional projects in collaboration with teams from multiple countries (Tokyo, HK, London, NYC) . Experienced working in 3 startups (excluding my own startup), 1st and 2nd biggest banks in the US and in 3 different countries (7 years in Tokyo). Built multiple diverse high-functioning teams and passionate about building mutual empathy driven business centric culture Designed and led both technical and non-technical decisions and delivered 8 new greenfield products from presentation to production. Responsible for Okta’s Identity data ingestion pipeline which handles 100+ millions of user activities.

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Hands-on leader with 25+ years of experience building and implementing global infrastructure, Cloud Solutions, and support teams in the financial services industry. Provides a technology vision that aligns solutions with organizational strategic goals. Possesses a proven track record of building highly productive teams with efficiency while solving complex problems with effective long term solutions. Areas of Expertise: Technology Leadership, Global Infrastructure, Organization & Staff Development, System Architecture, Network Architecture, Virtualization, Storage Management, Process Improvement, Financial Services Technology, Low Latency Market Data, Data Center Management, Change Management, Budgeting & Cost Control, and Vendor Management

Jonathan A. Marshall

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Leader in software development, data science, advanced algorithms, machine learning, neural networks, startup CTO.

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Global Head of Order Management Technology at Barclays Investment Bank

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Christian Martinez

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Staff Software Engineer