Profile

Personal & Professional Summary

MEC ZILLA \\ SYSTEMS ARCHITECT
#LIA-001
Mec Dot - Creative Portrait
Discipline
Full-Stack
Specialization
Community
Phase
Stealth
Brooklyn, NYC

About

I'm a New York-based Systems Architect, exploring in the intersection of design excellence, emerging technology, and human connection. I don't just build products; I architect systems that enable communities to activate their collective capital.

With over a decade of experience as a Creative Director for various Fortune 100 organiations, I learned to speak the language of brand and emotion. As a Software Engineer who cut my teeth building tools for underserved communities, I learned to speak the language of code rooted in equity and utility. This unique skillset allows me to own a vision from initial concept and strategic branding to prototyping, development, and deployment.

I revel in bringing people together, both through the digital experiences I build and the global communities I've managed and grown to over tens of thousands of members. My current aim at Cracked VC is to leverage AI & blockchain technologies to dismantle gatekeeping mechanisms, unlocking access for underrepresented talent and accelerating visionary ideas into reality.

My Philosophy

I believe the best digital products are built with strategic vision, empathetic design, and a radical sense of service in mind. My choices are driven by a desire to craft an experience that is not only intuitive and functional but also accessible and truly beneficial. Whether I'm leading a community of thousands, designing a brand system, or coding a responsive layout, my goal is always to connect, engage, and inspire.

Social Reach

22K
followers
7.5K
followers
1.7K
followers
31.2K
Total Reach

Web3 Clients & Partners

Trusted by leading organizations

GitcoinNikeConverseJordanPOAPFriends with BenefitsMantleUnlock ProtocoldotSWOOSH
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Strategic advisor and consultant to leading brands in Web3 culture, fashion, and technology

Experience

Professional Work History

Key Achievements

  • ●Product-Led Growth & Developer Adoption:
    Architected and designed the core platform to inherently drive network effects, focused on a seamless developer onboarding experience and virality through token rewards
  • ●Category Creation & Go-to-Market Strategy:
    Defined and trademarked "Ecosystem Capital" a new venture asset class from first principles; developed the core narrative, positioning, and phased GTM strategy to secure investment, attract founding partners, and drive early user adoption in a blue-ocean market.
  • ●Algorithmic Product Design & Positioning:
    Designed the core "Proof-of-Worth" consensus mechanism and a processing engine that convert non-economic capital to token for meritocratic rewards and generates a venture-grade signal score to help investors de-risk capital allocation.
  • ●Competitive Differentiation & Business Model Innovation:
    Pioneered a new market category building a more fiscally responsible, efficient, and profitable model for capital allocation, directly challenging and replacing incumbent pedigree-based gatekeeping systems with verifiable, on-chain track records of skill and impact.

Skills & Technologies

Product DesignBrand StrategyAlgorithmic DesignSmart Contract DevelopmentToken ModelingData Sovereignty ArchitectureRegulatory ComplianceDigital Syndicalism

Volunteering

Certifications

Front-End Development (Nanodegree)

Udacity

New York, NY

Education

BBA - Marketing Management

Baruch College (CUNY) | Zicklin School

New York, NY

Achievements

Udacity x OneTen BIT Scholarship Award

July 2024

BitDAO x Gitcoin Good Hack | 1st Place Prize

Feb 2023

Gitcoin GR15 - DEI Round | Grant Recipient

Sept 2022

File Coin Foundation | Explorer Grant Recipient

Aug 2022

Friends With Benefits ($FWB) | Graduated Fellow

April 2022

Unlock Protocol Cohort 4 | Grant Recipient

Nov 2021

Skills

Technical

HTML5HTML5CSS3CSS3JavaScriptJavaScriptNext.jsNext.jsReactReactTypeScriptTypeScriptTailwind CSSTailwind CSSPHPPHPPythonPythonNode.jsNode.jsPostgreSQLPostgreSQL

Dev Ops

VercelVercelGithubGithubAWSAWSNetlifyNetlifySupabaseSupabaseCloudflareCloudflareDockerDockerAnsibleAnsibleKubernetesKubernetesTerraformTerraformHerokuHeroku

Projects

Software Design & Engineering

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Pinpoint Chrome Extension

New York, NY•Aug 2025 - Present
●Engineered a visual selection system with hover highlighting, crosshair cursors, and customizable audio feedback (5 SFX) for an intuitive and satisfying user experience during element capture.
●Built a robust MCP server to format and transmit captured element data as markdown, enabling direct in-IDE analysis and reducing context-switching for developers.

Key Achievements

  • ●Designed and developed a Chrome extension that captures and analyzes a webpage's DOM elements, seamlessly integrating them with Cursor IDE via MCP to 40x developer workflows.
  • ●Enhanced user engagement through a meticulously crafted UX featuring neobrutalist design, animations, and configurable audio/notification settings.

Technologies

Next.jsTypeScriptTailwind CSSChrome Extension API (Manifest V3)Model Context Protocol (MCP)CursorVercel
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Break Up, Glow Up

New York, NY•Mar 2025 - Present
●Designed & developed a mobile friendly, glass morphic mental health & wellness event platform.
●Engineered a custom mobile ready ticketing system with secure payment processing via Stripe integration and QR code enabled ticket verification and attendee check-in for event access control.
●Built an admin dashboard with protected authentication (cookie-based) to manage content, event details, user registrations, email notifications as well as ticket management and verification.

Key Achievements

  • ●Reduced ticket purchase friction by 40% through mobile friendly modal Stripe integration.
  • ●Alleviated on-site event check in security processes with mobile ticket scanning and check-in.

Technologies

Next.jsReactTypeScriptTailwind CSSNeonStripeShadCN/UIRadix UIGhostVercel
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