Bauer Wann
Product Lead, Payments at GEST
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBauer Wann is a product leader with nine years of experience building payments and consumer products at crypto-native and consumer startups in the San Francisco Bay Area. Currently leading Payments at Mysten Labs after progressing from Product Manager, he combines blockchain product expertise with hands-on startup operating experience as co‑founder of GEST. His background spans product strategy at ThunderCore, operational leadership at mission-driven VEERAH, and manufacturing-facing product work at Pegatron, giving him fluency across tech, hardware, and retail supply chains. Bauer is comfortable translating complex technical trade-offs into customer-focused roadmaps and has repeatedly shipped monetization and payments features in fast-moving environments. He brings a strategist’s lens from an economics degree at Stanford and a founder’s appetite for rapid experimentation and cross-functional execution. An understated strength is his early career experience as a U.S. market liaison and music DNA specialist, which informs a nuanced understanding of product localization and consumer taste.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Economics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Economics at Stanford University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (6)
distributed-ledger-technology10
smart-contracts10
programming-language10
move10
blockchain10
low-latency10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
bwann52/bloc-jams
Oct 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:1 PR, 24 pushes, 19 branches in 2 months
bwann52/bloc-jams-angular
Jan 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:12 pushes, 11 branches, 1 comment in 1 month
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