Dontrail Cotlage
Founder at Gemach DAO
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDontrail Cotlage is a security-focused founder and technologist with over a decade of hands-on experience building and defending blockchain, fintech, and web-scale systems. As founder of Gemach DAO and Chief Information Security Officer at Unbanked, he leads security strategy for distributed ledger technologies while aligning risk management with product goals. His prior tenure as a Penetration Testing Engineer at the NSA, plus a track record across SOC, Linux systems administration, and IT infrastructure, gives him a practical, threat-hunting mindset and he trains defenders by emulating attackers to build incident response muscle memory. He holds a Master of Technology and Policy from MIT and a BS in Computer Science, enabling him to fuse policy, risk, and engineering in scalable security programs. Based in San Diego, he combines entrepreneurial grit with deep technical depth to push information security boundaries in crypto, fintech, and beyond.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master Technology and Policy Program Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Master Technology and Policy Program Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (41)
crypto10
cryptocurrency10
ethereum10
cryptography10
packed9
docker8
react8
slack8
javascript8
nodejs8
debugging8
mobx8
markdown7
tooling7
debug7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Ternio/bitcore
May 2021 - Feb 2025
A full stack for bitcoin and blockchain-based applications
Contributions:27 PRs, 48 pushes, 46 branches in 3 years 10 months
full-stackblockchainblockchain-networkcryptocurrencybitcoin
Ternio/ach-nacha-builder
Feb 2021 - Sep 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 7 months
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