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Core team

Cofounder

Josh started coding at the age of 10. Prior to Origin, he co-founded three other venture-backed companies: EventVue, Torbit (acquired by Walmart Labs) & Forage.

Matthew Liu

Cofounder

Matt was the 3rd PM at YouTube (acquired by Google) and VP PM at Qwiki (acquired by Yahoo) and Bonobos (acquired by Walmart). He has an MS and BS from Stanford.

Coleman Maher

Business Development

Coleman is an active cryptocurrency investor and real estate entrepreneur, owning and managing multiple Airbnb properties. He studied mathematics at Berkeley.

Yu Pan

R&D Engineer

Yu Pan was one of the 6 founding team members of PayPal and was the 1st employee at YouTube. He is a former Google employee and co-founder of Kiwi Crate.

Micah Alcorn

Product Manager/Engineer

Micah was the technical co-founder of WellAttended, a bootstrapped box office management platform. He worked as a commercial real estate broker while learning to code.

Kay Yoo

Finance & Operations

Kay is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA). She previously worked as a Senior Accountant and then as a Senior Consultant at KPMG Canada.

Franck Chastagnol

Senior Engineer

Franck has had a successful career as an early employee at numerous high-profile companies. He previously led engineering teams at Inktomi, Paypal, YouTube, Google and Dropbox.

Mila Choi

Regional Manager Korea

Mila is leading our community efforts in South Korea. She previously organized blockhain hackathons and has degrees from Penn State and Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Tom Linton

Senior Engineer

Before Origin, Tom had a successful career as a solo startup founder. He has two Masters degrees in Distributed Systems from the Technical University of Berlin and KTH in Stockholm.

Anna Wang

Regional Manager China

Anna is leading our community efforts for Chinese speakers. Before Origin, Anna managed global social media at Exness, a leading forex broker. She also co-founded a non-profit in Australia.

Nick Poulden

Senior Engineer

Nick studied Computer Science at the University of Warwick. Prior to joining Origin, he worked as an engineer at Sencha, C3 Energy Network and Palo Alto Networks.

Domen Grabec

Engineer

Domen co-founded and led a team developing a mobile application with 2 chess Grandmasters. He previously had a successful career at Cetra, Zemanta and Peerindex.

Shahul Hameed

Engineer

Shahul is a fullstack engineer who started programming at age of 10. He previously worked as a freelancer and then joined Zoho as a front-end developer.

Zaurbek Ivanov

Russia Community

Zaurbek Ivanov studied Economics at Kabardino-Balkaria State Agrarian University in Nalchik, Russia. He has worked in the hospitality industry in the US and Russia.

Mike Shultz

Engineer

Mike is a long-time contributor to open-source. He created a dev toolkit for creating Ethereum smart contracts with Python and previously worked with Ethereum and IPFS at Lunyr.

Aure Gimon

Product Designer

Aure is a product designer with 10+ years of experience. Prior to joining Origin, Aure worked at multiple startups and Fortune 500 companies. In a past life, he was also a software engineer.

Max Unger

Head of Community

Before joining Origin, Max helped build communities for notable blockchain companies like OKEx. He also worked with RedNova, the marketing and incubation entity for Du Capital.