Théo Powers
Founder, CEO at Merkle
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolThéo Powers is a software founder and technology leader based in Vancouver with a decade of experience delivering scalable web and blockchain-enabled products. As Founder and CEO of Merkle since 2023, he is building blockchain-based payment for order flow, combining product vision with hands-on engineering. He previously shaped smart contracts and on-chain asset settlements as a Senior Software Engineer at Coinbase and led full-stack development as the first software hire at Clay, where he built a low-code automation platform on AWS and modern front-end architectures. Beyond engineering, Théo founded and led the McGill Artificial Intelligence Society, growing a large student community and coordinating key sponsorships and events. He is a McGill CS graduate who has balanced startup leadership with practical, production-focused software delivery across both startup and enterprise contexts.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science at McGillBaccalauréat, Mention très bien, Highest honors, Baccalauréat, Mention très bien, Highest honors at French bac
English, French
Github Skills (119)
tooling10
testing10
linting10
solidity10
foundry10
solc10
ethereum10
blockchain10
modular9
javascript9
portable9
browser9
visual-odometry9
directives9
rust9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
inferrd/inferrd
Feb 2022 - Jul 2022
Contributions:23 commits, 42 pushes, 1 issue in 4 months
Theo-/virtual-real-estate
Jan 2017 - Jan 2017
Contributions:74 commits, 9 PRs, 18 pushes in 3 days
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