KEITH MASCHERONI

I joined Foundry as their first in-house designer. They're one of the largest Bitcoin pools in the world, with several mining operations in US locations.

Their pool data was consumed mostly through API. But their mining ops platform – an acquired, re-branded product with a backlog of features, fixes and needs, provided LOTS to sink my teeth into.

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'Show everything all the time all at once'

Mining sites have thousands of ASICs running in extreme conditions. 24/7. Each needs monitoring, analysis, trouble-shooting, maintenance and replacement. Overlay this with factoring power cost, power availability, environment (heat, wind, electrical storms, tornados hurricanes): How to evaluate and navigate a ten-thousand-foot-to-single-device in a few clicks.

 

A perfect storm for my brain