Gavin McDermott

Gavin McDermott

Gavin McDermott

Investor at IDEO CoLab Ventures

Currently working at IDEO CoLab on distributed systems, dispersed computing, peer-to-peer networks. Day to day, I'm building systems for the internet's much needed infrastructure and application rewrite. Before CoLab I was a founding engineer at BitGo, a bitcoin security company, and a front-end lead at Lovely.

Experience

IDEO CoLabInvestor IDEO CoLab Ventures

2017 — Now

2017 — Now

San Francisco Bay Area

IDEOEngineering and Research

2015 — Now

2015 — Now

San Francisco Bay Area

Working on distributed systems, dispersed computing, and peer-to-peer networks, I design for the emerging internet.

BitGo, Inc.Founding Engineer

2014 — 2015

2014 — 2015

First hire at BitGo, Inc.; lots of building on BTC/multisig in the early days.

LovelyJavascript Engineering / UX Design

2013 — 2014

2013 — 2014

Lead front-end engineer; left only because of a deep interest in cryptocurrency.

NarrableHead of Product

2012 — 2013

2012 — 2013

Tempe, Arizona

I studied the latest in behavior design (from the practice of BJ Fogg, Dean Eckles, etc.) and applied theory in the product design process.

Education

Hack Reactor

Advanced Javascript

Creighton University

BSBA