Industry

Experience

Associate VP, Product — Consensys 2024 – Present
  • Lead the Special Mechanisms Group (SMG) and the Infura product group, overseeing product strategy and execution across both teams.
  • Own Consensys's Ethereum MEV strategy, including the Servo Order Flow Auction — a mechanism that coordinates incentives among validators, builders, and searchers at the protocol layer.
  • Translate complex mechanism design theory into shippable product: define specifications, align engineering, and drive go-to-market for protocol-level infrastructure.
Head of Strategic Projects & Market Design — Lightspark 2023 – 2024
  • Acted as product manager on multiple internal R&D projects from ideation through launch; authored a technical whitepaper.
  • Served as technical program manager for the engineering team, owning roadmap execution, cross-team dependencies, and delivery.
  • Led cross-functional efforts and partnership management for the UMA (Universal Monetary Address) standard — a cross-industry interoperability protocol.
  • Designed and implemented probabilistic graph search algorithms to probe the topology and liquidity of the Lightning Network.
Economics Lead, Product — Chainlink Labs 2022 – 2023
  • Designed and led the end-to-end launch of Chainlink's staking program on Ethereum mainnet — a landmark mechanism design problem requiring coordination of incentives across node operators, token holders, and protocol security guarantees.
  • Owned the full product lifecycle from mechanism specification and economic modeling through smart contract deployment and mainnet launch.
Economist, Product — Meta 2021 – 2022
  • Led cryptoeconomic research and product strategy at Novi for the Diem blockchain and stablecoin (also known as Libra) — designing the incentive structures and economic properties for a novel global payment network.
  • Drove strategy on blockchain-based product decisions in a fast-moving, cross-functional environment.
Research & Consulting Roles (during PhD) 2019 – 2021
  • Contractor, NCX (2021) — Built an optimization program to run the forest carbon credit auction for NCX's Natural Capital Exchange platform.
  • Technical Editor, The Dasgupta Review on the Economics of Biodiversity (2020) — Edited 13 chapters of technical economic content for this landmark independent review commissioned by the UK Treasury.
  • Pro Bono Consultant, One Acre Fund (2020) — Advised on the design of an agroforestry carbon credit program with smallholder farmers in Africa.
  • Research Intern, Microsoft Research New England (2019 & 2020) — Mentored by Nicole Immorlica and Brendan Lucier on contract design theory; collaborated with NGOs in East Africa to validate field results. Funded by Microsoft AI for Earth.
  • Research Fellow, World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF), Kampala, Uganda (Fall 2019) — Conducted field research and focus group interviews with smallholder farmers; presented findings to stakeholders across public, nonprofit, and private sectors.
Academia

Research

Simple and Optimal Contract Design for Payment for Ecosystem Services

With Itai Ashlagi and Irene Lo. Published in Management Science, Special Issue on Business and Climate. Open access.

Contract Design for Afforestation Programs

With Nicole Immorlica and Brendan Lucier. Presented at AI for Social Good (2020) and WINE (2021). Won the Global Challenges in Economics and Computation (GCEC) grant; funded a survey of 400 smallholder farmers in Uganda.

Welfare Impacts of Travel Delays in Queues

Presented at INFORMS Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ (2018).

Leadership

Awards & Honors

Academic Service & Teaching