# Chris Doran

> Software Engineer

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/chrisdoran

I'm a software engineer focused on cross-chain infrastructure and stablecoin systems. Currently tech lead at Block (Cash App) working on stablecoin products. Previously led web infrastructure at Chainflip, a native-to-native cross-chain DEX that processed $5B+ in volume.

I co-organized Eth Melbourne for two years, hosting speakers from Paradigm, Nethermind, Railgun and others.

You can find more about me at my website: cdrn.xyz

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Block
Jan 2023 – Present | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
The fintech formerly known as Square

Tech Lead - Stablecoins
Bitcoin Trading team
Bitcoin Native team

### Lead Engineer @ Chainflip UG
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Berlin, Germany
Full stack lead engineer. Built infrastructure for a native to native (BTC, ETH, DOT) cross chain decentralised exchange. Block explorer, staking, indexer, trading app and more.

### Software Engineer @ Chainflip UG
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021

### Software Engineer @ Klarna
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Berlin, Germany
Consumer banking teams - Onboarding and Experience

- Fault-tolerant signup/onboarding; 
- Cross-team monorepo integration
- Led es6→typescript migration

### Software Engineer @ Kapiche
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019
Shipped NLP product improvements (topic modelling speed, dashboards, sentiment). Owned the platform - worked directly with customers to triage bugs and deliver features.

### Australian Delegate - Seeds for the Future @ Huawei Technologies
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
New Colombo grant recipient. Student participant in the Huawei Seeds for the Future China exchange program.

### Intern @ DINGO
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Brisbane, QLD
QUT Capstone project. Undertook a project to predict the drop out rate of certain assets based on sample data.


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
QUT (Queensland University of Technology)

### Bachelor's degree in Psychological Science
Griffith University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/cdrn
- GitHub: https://github.com/cdrn
- Portfolio: https://cdrn.github.io

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Last updated: 2026-03-29