Barry Plunkett
Co-CEO at Cosmos Labs
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBarry Plunkett is a blockchain entrepreneur and operator who serves as Co-CEO of Cosmos Labs, building interoperable infrastructure for tokenization, stablecoins, and institutional DeFi. He co-founded and led Skip and previously worked in New Ventures at D. E. Shaw after conducting reinforcement learning research at Wharton, a path that marries academic ML rigor with institutional finance and startup execution. His work centers on operationalizing the Cosmos stack—technology that underpins hundreds of chains and secures tens of billions in assets—to help institutions adopt modern financial rails. Based in New York, he’s known for translating research discipline and market experience into product strategy and scalable blockchain adoption.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Arts at University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (105)
cosmos10
cryptocurrency10
golang10
osmosis10
consistency10
avalanche10
swap10
cryptography10
blockchain10
dex10
wallet9
composite9
consensus9
cosmos-sdk9
secured9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
skip-mev/config
Nov 2022 - Mar 2023
Repo containing version controlled config values for Skip-enabled blockchains
Contributions:13 reviews, 32 commits, 28 PRs in 4 months
controlledskipblockchainconfigblockchains
skip-mev/docs
Feb 2023 - Jun 2024
Docs for Skip
Contributions:17 reviews, 26 PRs, 17 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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