Blockchain-based firm Blockstream, has announced the recruitment of various new talented people in the blockchain industry, to its technical team.
The announcement came, following the company’s acquisition of GreenAddress, a leading bitcoin wallet software provider along with the addition of GreenAddress's founder Lawrence Nahum to its team, last month.
The company announced its recent hires of talented people in the blockchain industry, including Sonya Joseph, Rachel Marotto, and Ian Petty who have joined the team of Finance and Operations to take up roles in recruiting, human resources, and finance, respectively.
Blockstream has been expanding its team since the start of the year. The company saw the addition of Eric Martindale, who came as ‘Developer Evangelist’ and now working with the Elements Project, an open source project for sidechains. Having worked before in Bitpay, his expertise is well regarded in the community as a contributor, speaker, and advocate. Also, Kat Walsh joined the company in February as Legal Counsel. She has been handling the company's legal activities and contributing to the Defensive Patent Strategy project.
Since late March, Blockstream witnessed a number of engineers including Christian Decker, the author of the world's first PhD dissertation about bitcoin; Jim Dennis, the first member of Blockstream’s Operations, IT, and Networking team; Russell O'Connor, who joined the engineering team and currently focused on improving the scripting capabilities in bitcoin, among others.
“With this new group, we're now even more distributed as a company with people working from across the US, Canada, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. We've got a new website in the works, which will include a complete set of photos and bios for the whole team,” the announcement said.
