Jay Albert

About

I build things and then help other people build them. Some of that is product and engineering work, some is developer relations, some is community, and some is 3D printing.

A decade of it across AI, decentralised compute, blockchains, gaming, augmented reality, finance, and civic tech. All of it is on this site, including the things that never shipped.

Practice

Developer Relations60
Product & Design21
Engineering19
Writing & Research16
Community & Education15
Hardware & Fabrication2

Another 66 pull requests merged into 20 repositories I do not own, between 2020 and 2026. The search.

Where

  • Aug 2025 - present

    DevRel Engineer · Midnight Foundation

    Reference dApp examples, technical writing, developer programmes, and the weekly Fireside Dev Hang.

  • Mar 2025 - present

    Advisor · OMM Games

    Advising on developer-facing product.

  • Jan 2025 - Aug 2025

    Developer relations · Lilypad Network

    Tutorials, live coding demos, and a gamified module-building process to onboard developers. Ran Twitter Spaces and outreach into the AI, Web3 and DeSci communities.

  • 2024 - 2025

    Developer Relations Specialist · ChainSafe Gaming

    Led a team of nine to launch a dApp shown to over 40,000 users, onboarded game studios onto B3, and built courses for the Unity SDK, IPFS and smart contracts.

  • 2022 - 2023

    Blockchain Incubator Manager and Developer Relations · Godwoken Blockchain

    Ran a portfolio of projects on a combined $220K budget, from dApp launches through to marketing, and led development workshops at ETHDenver and ETHIndia.

  • 2022

    Blockchain Consulting Project Manager · Smith + Crown

    Advised corporations and DAOs on meta governance, token design, and how crypto-economic design shapes user behaviour.

  • 2021 - 2022

    Co-founder, Head of Operations and Community · Mix3d

    Grew a Web3 community past 100 members, five of whom went on to roles at Web3 companies, alongside group investments, NFT launches and a proof-of-concept game in Decentraland.

  • 2014 - 2019

    Digital Operations Manager · OppenheimerFunds

    Marketing, research and project operations. Worked with an eleven-person product and engineering team in two-week sprints on new fund creation, risk and data accuracy.

  • 2013 - 2017

    COO and Co-founder · The Fourth Branch

    Co-founded a platform that tracked and summarised long-form bills in Congress. Wireframed and designed the product, and drove content to over 30,000 followers.

Work here runs 2014 to 2026.