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Jaraad Hines

Senior Product Lead & Product Engineer specializing in FinTech and AI platforms

Iron Key CapitalUniversity of PennsylvaniaNew York, NY9 Years ExperienceSenior LevelWorks On-Site

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Product engineer/designer with founder mindset who shipped a blockchain-enabled investor group/governance platform using Next.js (App Router), TypeScript, Prisma/Postgres, and Temporal. Emphasizes auth-centric onboarding (SSO + embedded wallet) to make dApp UX feel more like SaaS, and brings strong reliability practices (idempotent retries, reconciliation) plus experience demoing to investors and operating in seed-stage teams (ex-Vouched).

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Key Strengths

  • Shipped end-to-end full-stack product for blockchain-enabled investor governance platform
  • Deep Next.js App Router expertise (Server Actions + cache invalidation for reactive UI updates)
  • Designed auth-centric state model for wallet/identity orchestration to improve onboarding continuity
  • Strong relational modeling for governance workflows (proposals, memberships, votes) with audit trails
  • Data correctness + performance validation using business-rule tests and latency metrics (p50/p90)
  • Thoughtful workflow reliability engineering (activity-level retries, idempotency boundaries, reconciliation)
  • Cross-functional leadership in early-stage environments (guided backend integration, investor demos)
  • Product engineering + design focus on novel UX paradigms to differentiate in competitive crypto/DeFi space

Reference Highlights

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  • Redesigned an MVP-quality frontend into a professional, usable experience
  • Strong end-to-end ownership of the application
  • High autonomy with minimal direction
  • Creative influence and product leadership as the team grew
  • Clarified product experience via user-centric design (vs feature-centric)
  • Improved sales demo clarity and customer understanding of the product
  • Enlightening at distilling and dissecting value creation
  • Collaborative and listens well
  • Good architectural judgment around systems and product
  • Delivered work appreciated by founder (conversational AI agents)
  • Owned initiatives end-to-end through production support
  • Strong cross-functional coordination and alignment
  • Delivered real-time blockchain data availability on schedule with quality standards
  • Solid React/TypeScript skills with attention to performance and UX
  • Clean, intentional component architecture
  • Improved UI responsiveness by preventing unnecessary re-renders/lag
  • Strong relational schema design; thinks through data relationships early
  • Thorough post-incident analysis
  • Clear ownership and recovery plans for long-running processes
  • Helped reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR)
  • High engineering quality bar
  • Enforced strong code review standards
  • Pushed for automated testing coverage
  • Built observability into processes
  • Fast execution; consistently delivered targets on time
  • Handles ambiguity well; makes reasonable decisions quickly
  • Clear communicator with stakeholders
  • Receptive to feedback; not defensive
  • Quickly reprioritized and delivered changes within the same sprint

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Experience

Product LeadIron Key Capital / Fish Network · Aug 2025 – Present
Co-FounderHinesight, Inc. · May 2017 – Mar 2025
Product EngineerVouched, Inc. · Dec 2020 – Jan 2022

Education

University of Pennsylvaniabootcamp, Full Stack Engineering (2021)
Virginia Commonwealth Universitybachelor, Marketing & Consumer Behavior (2017)

Languages

English

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Jaraad HinesSenior Product Lead & Product Engineer specializing in FinTech and AI platforms