# Miles Minton

> I help with your hardest crypto, finance, and engineering leadership problems.

Miles Minton has extensive experience building, shipping, and leading across industries — Meta, Trustless, Allora. Engagements run through Finality Labs.

- Site: https://milesminton.com
- CV (PDF): https://milesminton.com/miles_minton_cv.pdf
- Email: miles@finalitylab.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/milesminton
- Finality Labs: https://finalitylab.com

## Work

- Founder — Finality Labs LLC (Apr 2025 – Present). Independent engineering through a US S-Corp. Fractional CTO and scoped engineering builds for crypto and fintech teams. Hands-on protocol architecture, smart contracts, and product engineering.
- Head of Engineering — Power Finance (May 2025 – Apr 2026), embedded via Finality Labs. Only engineer. Owned the full technical surface. Smart contract architecture, protocol security, and M0 integration. Tokenized energy markets: issuance and staking.
- Engineering Lead — Allora Labs (Nov 2023 – Jul 2024). Formerly Upshot, Lead Smart Contract Engineer (Sep 2022 – Nov 2023). Led Allora engineering. Built an AI × crypto blockchain on Cosmos.
- Founder, CEO & CTO — Trustless (Dec 2019 – Apr 2023). zkSync protocol. Founded and led the company. Smart contract architecture, mechanism design, and audits.
- Senior Software Engineer — Meta (Nov 2014 – Dec 2018), Menlo Park. Shipped products used by 100M+ people.

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