Steven Platt, PhD

Hi, I'm Steven, but you can call me telecomsteve!

With over 16 years of experience spanning telecommunications, web3, software engineering, and entrepreneurship, I offer a unique combination of technical depth and leadership capabilities. My background includes earning a PhD in Blockchain Technologies from Pompeu Fabra University, designing stress testing infrastructure for the Mina blockchain protocol at O(1) Labs, developing an MVP for a pioneering "receptionist-as-a-service" platform as a founder, leading infrastructure deployments across five continents at Twitter, and teaching university-level smart contract programming curriculum. This diverse experience has equipped me with expertise in areas such as cloud infrastructure automation, network engineering, open-source contributions, and people management. I am well-versed in technologies like Python, Go, Kubernetes, Terraform, and possess a proven ability to launch products, optimize processes, and foster collaborative engineering cultures.