Summary
Ben Payne is a founder and CEO with 11+ years of formal experience and a career rooted in embedded software, hardware integration, and scalable system design. He grew a software consultancy from 10 to 85 people over nearly 15 years, led product and architecture efforts that delivered the RVU remote UI deployed on over 30 million set-top devices, and has repeatedly blended business development with hands-on engineering. Transitioning into cryptocurrency in 2010, he designed an unusually efficient end-to-end GPU mining system and now runs New School Mining and Blue Rock Systems to commercialize cloud mining and blockchain infrastructure in the U.S. Comfortable both architecting low-level systems and scaling teams, he pairs operational rigor with product vision. Based in Carlsbad, CA, he brings a pragmatic founder’s appetite for building hardware-software stacks that scale and a track record of shipping industry-scale embedded and blockchain solutions.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Riverside