Michael Cohen
Senior Engineer at BigMarketAI
Brighton, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMichael Cohen is a senior full-stack engineer and entrepreneur with 8 years focused on Bitcoin, Web3 and decentralised applications, currently serving as Co-Founder and CTO at BigMarketAI. He builds bridges between Bitcoin and smart-contract ecosystems—contributing to sBTC and DLC-based DeFi work on the Stacks platform—and helps advance Clarity, a safer on-chain language for Bitcoin-secured contracts. His career blends deep research training (a PhD in theoretical chemistry from Cambridge) with hands-on product and platform engineering dating back to architecting Bidlogix’s auction systems. Michael has co-founded multiple ventures pursuing a user-owned internet and NFT collaborations that intersect culture and crypto. He is experienced shipping production-grade full-stack systems, cryptographic integration work, and practical decentralised governance primitives. Based in Brighton, he combines academic rigor with startup grit and an unusual focus on making Bitcoin-native smart contracts auditable and secure.
8 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Post Doctoral Degree, Post Doctoral Degree at University of British ColumbiaDoctor of Philosophy Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy Chemistry at University of CambridgeBachelor of Science Chemical Physics, Bachelor of Science Chemical Physics at University of SussexValentines High School
Github Skills (79)
blockstack10
crypto10
bitcoin10
layer210
stacks-blockchain10
wallet9
clarity9
rust9
testing9
chrome-extension9
bitcoin-wallet9
blockchain9
ethereum9
sips9
firefox8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
mijoco-btc/stxeco-vote
Nov 2023 - Jul 2025
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Contributions:9 reviews, 52 PRs, 151 pushes in 1 year 7 months
mijoco-btc/clarity-market
Oct 2020 - Sep 2022
Contributions:5 reviews, 168 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 10 months
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