Robert Witoff
Founder of Unit 410
Austin, Texas
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder & CEO
2018 - Current
Institutional Cold Storage & Staking
Chief Technology Officer
2018 - 2021
Artisanal hash functions
Polychain Capital invests in cryptocurrency and blockchain assets.
Raised $10,000,000.00 from Alexander Pack, DCM Ventures, Pantera Capital, DHVC, Union Square Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz and Abstract.
Security
2017 - 2018
Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.
Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.
Chief Architect
2017 - 2017
Director of Infrastructure & Security
2014 - 2017
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 billions of dollars flowing through our environment from human and technical single point failures. Conducted regular redteam & pentest to test defenses and response. Exercised security & infrastructure automation in a 24 hour production migration to a new datacenter with 0-downtime in a "Scorched Earth" event. Built realtime streaming, analytics and anomaly detection covering billions of daily events. Building Infra, Devops, Ops and Security Teams to scale Coinbase to the moon!
Coinbase Ventures is an investment arm of Coinbase that aims to invest in seed-stage cryptocurrency and blockchain startups.
Data Scientist in CTO's Office
2013 - 2014
Architected new data systems used by Astronaut Office, moved the first ITAR workloads to GovCloud, redesigned JPL's institutional search systems, built realtime web-based query & analysis systems for the Mars Curiosity rover and led a variety of Security & People analysis projects.
OPALS Space Station Systems Engineering Lead
2009 - 2013
Designed and flew NASA's first operation LEO laser communication satellite. I managed all interfaces with the Internal Space Station including structural, electrical, thermal, environmental, robotic, astronautic and software subsystems. Successfully integrated as the first external payload to fly on SpaceX's (CRS3 - F9) flight to ISS.
Software Engineer
2009 - 2011
Built navigation software for the Dawn and Rosetta missions to two protoplanets and a comet.
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a federally funded research and development center managed for NASA.
Co-Founder
2008 - 2010
Development club that paired hackers with non-profits to do good for our community.
Co-Founder
2009 - 2009
Automation. In Y Combinator S09.
Founder
2006 - 2009
Communication software for schools.
Constellation Program Systems Engineering
2008 - 2008
Returning NASA to the moon. Manned vehicles & lunar habitats.
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a federally funded research and development center managed for NASA.
Research Assistant
2006 - 2008
Spaceweather forecasting algorithms, Spacecraft sensor calibration and more.
Education
BS
2005 - 2009
Summer '09
2009 - 2009