Christian Murray
Technical Protocol Strategist at Gauntlet
Christian Murray
Technical Protocol Strategist at Gauntlet
Miami, Florida
Overview
Work Experience
Technical Protocol Strategist
2024
Remote Teaching Assistant
2018 - 2024
Assisted with the creation of new cryptocurrency-focused classes at NYU Stern school of business. Wrote homework assignments, homework example solutions and created example data sets for “Topics in Cryptocurrency Investing”, taught by professor Ian D’souza. Gathered data and graphics to be used in this class. Conducted research, wrote slide outlines, and created homework assignments for the creation of "Digital Currencies, Blockchains, and the Future of Financial Services", an advanced-level cryptocurrency class in NYU Stern.
Analyst
2020 - 2023
Designed, built and launched CESR (Composite Ethereum Staking Rate), a product tracking the daily annualized ETH staking yield in partnership with CoinDesk. Evaluate web3 projects for both early stage venture and liquid investing vehicles Operate CoinFund's node infrastructure; manage uptime, collection of rewards and regular upgrades to AWS servers Conduct active participation in DAOs and propose strategies for CoinFund's governance participation Conduct fundamental research across the web3 and cryptocurrency markets
Remote Software Development Intern
2020 - 2020
Collaborated with an international team of seven interns on Blockchain Common's projects currently under development. Worked as lead developer of Spotbit, a portable Tor-based cryptocurrency market data server. Assisted other interns with integrating Spotbit into Gordian Wallet, Blockchain Common's iOS full node management app. Helped develop a standardized process for Blockchain Common's development, including best git practices, shared research techniques, and communication, for the benefit of future interns. Deployed Spotbit to a home server setup and to a Blockchain Commons controlled VPS. Assisted other interns with programming issues where possible.
Remote Intern
2017 - 2020
- Collect and analyze data about various cryptocurrency markets from a variety of sources, including exchange API’s and coinmarketcap. - Using Excel and Python to acquire and process the data. Analyze mathematical trends in data, including drawdown, Sharpe ratio, and returns distributions. - Produced publication-quality graphs and figures for use in various publications and documents. - Contributor to “An Introduction to Bitcoin and Cboe XBT Bitcoin Futures” whitepaper, published by Cboe. - Used scraped data to analyze quantitative trends and signals within the data. - Created ExVol, an automated tool for gathering coimarketcap data and inserting into spreadsheets. - Managed large datasets of market data on remote servers and wrote python scripts to acquire, manage, transform the data for use in quantitative analysis.
Floor Staff
2016 - 2020
Duties include using registers to sell tickets and concessions, cleaning floors and theaters, maintaining clean working spaces, restocking products as necessary, and taking inventory.
Camp Counselor
2017 - 2017
Managed group of 25 campers aged 8-13 during mornings and afternoons. Ran several “specialty” camps, focused on developing certain skills for longer periods of time. Camps included mountain biking and computer programming. Monitored morning and afternoon bus route, supervising children while on the bus and transferring children to their parents at bus stops, while maintaining open communication with parents at each stop.