Ted Blackman
Co-Founder & CTO at Voltropy
Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolTed Blackman is a systems-focused software leader and founder with 13 years of experience building low-level and distributed software, currently serving as Co-Founder & CTO of Voltropy while operating a principal software consultancy. He spent several years as Urbit Foundation CTO and earlier as an Arvo kernel core developer and engineering manager at Tlon, where he implemented a network protocol, linker/build system, kernel hot reload, and timer module—demonstrating deep kernel and runtime expertise uncommon in typical startup CTOs. His background blends robotics and signal-processing research (including an analytic multiplicative EKF for inertial navigation) with hands-on product engineering across C/C#, Python and systems tooling. Based in Massachusetts and active in systems software, Ted pairs entrepreneurial experience from multiple co-founded ventures with a track record of shipping resilient, low-level infrastructure.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
S.B., Physics with a focus in Robotics, S.B., Physics with a focus in Robotics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
English, German, Chinese, Latin
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Github Skills (77)
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javascript10
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libp2p10
css10
urbit10
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Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
belisarius222/arvo
Aug 2017 - Aug 2019
arvo, the urbit operating system
Contributions:153 pushes, 50 branches, 2 comments in 2 years
operating-systemarvooperatingurbit
desantis/arvo
Dec 2017 - Feb 2019
Contributions:109 commits in 1 year 2 months
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