Alexander Burns

Experience

Staff Custody Engineer at Crypto Exchange (Apr 2026 - Present):
Building the trust boundary around customer funds through secure key-management and signing systems, with emphasis on MPC/TSS, enclave-based signing, policy enforcement, auditability, and operational safety.

Consultant (Dec 2023 - Present):
Advising crypto exchanges, protocols, and MEV extraction strategies.

Senior Software Engineer at Gemini (Dec 2024 - Dec 2025):
Owned and hardened the Kubernetes-based blockchain infrastructure powering customer deposits and withdrawals across Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and Zcash—improving node reliability, sync performance, failover, and detection of chain reorgs and abnormal network events.

Founding Engineer at Aevo (Nov 2021 - Oct 2023):
Designed and implemented a decentralized options and perps exchange with onchain settlements.

Software Engineer at Kraken (May 2018 - June 2021):
Key contributor in developing and enhancing one of the world's best Bitcoin exchange platform.

Software Engineer at Cisco (July 2016 - April 2018):
Facilitated the development and implementation of routing and signaling for cloud calling.

Software Engineer Intern at Cisco (May 2014 - May 2016)

Software Engineer Intern at WetStone Technologies (Nov 2013 - May 2014)