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CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER · SOLUTIONS ARCHITECTURE & PRODUCT ENGINEERING

FRANK MÜLLER

Full-stack from silicon to strategy. I architect self-contained intelligent products — cryptography, inference, native interfaces, and the business that ships them.

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AVAILABLE :: CTO_LEVEL + SENIOR_ENGINEERING — REMOTE · US & WORLDWIDE

[ 01 :: FIELD_EVIDENCE ]

  • AUTHENTIA ENTERPRISE INTELLIGENCE

    HUMAN-IN-COMMAND

    Fifteen frontier models graded against recorded sales in six asset classes, never trusted — one deterministic pricing path, every judgement sealed to a hash-chained ledger, every consequential call a human's.

    LIVE (opens in new tab)DESIGN :: END-TO-END

  • AUTHENTIA DIGITAL PRODUCT PASSPORT

    VERIFIABLE_PROVENANCE

    Digital product passports for physical assets — unforgeable, physically-verifiable titles binding provenance to the object itself.

    LIVE (opens in new tab)DESIGN :: END-TO-END

  • OCTOPUS

    APPLE_APP

    Hi-fi music player for Apple platforms — reference-grade playback and on-device library intelligence, engineered native for Apple Silicon.

    VIEW_DEPLOYMENT DESIGN :: END-TO-END

  • BRUTAL

    APPLE_WALLET

    Digital business cards for iPhone wallets — one spoken sentence, designed on the phone, carried as a micro landing page in someone else’s Wallet.

    IN_BUILD (opens in new tab)DESIGN :: END-TO-END

  • GIGASTAR

    SEC_REGULATED

    First-of-its-kind SEC-regulated (Reg CF) crowdfunding platform for YouTube creators — fan participation in channel revenue, stood up end-to-end.

    VIEW_DEPLOYMENT (opens in new tab)

  • GALAXY — GATEWAY TICKETING SYSTEMS

    12+ IMPLEMENTATIONS

    Gateway Ticketing's Galaxy platform taken into Latin America from zero — demos, technical evaluation, closing the sale and on-site installation, owned personally, across five countries.

    DELIVERED (opens in new tab)

  • ULTRAMAR PLATFORM

    30M+ PASSENGERS

    Full digital operations platform for the Caribbean's largest ferry operator — ticketing to executive dashboards, in production since 2018.

    IN_PRODUCTION (opens in new tab)

  • FARMACIAS ESPECIALIZADAS

    100+ PHARMACIES

    Point-of-sale, warehouse, and invoicing rebuilt as one stack for a major LatAm pharmaceutical distributor — insurer-settled co-insurance at the register.

    DELIVERED (opens in new tab)

  • SPARKINK GEMCRAFT

    HOBBY

    Natural diamonds, alien designs — a personal storefront for impossible craft. Built end-to-end, for the pleasure of building it.

    VIEW_DEPLOYMENT (opens in new tab)DESIGN :: END-TO-END

[ 02 :: OPERATION_LOG ]

  1. 2025 — NOW · Remote

    CTO & VP of Product · Authentia Enterprise Intelligence

    PARTNER :: IBM watsonx Engineering Partner

    • Engineered an enterprise reasoning and orchestration platform spanning insurance underwriting and specialty banking — credit evaluation, collateral valuation and loan-to-value analysis on one governed reasoning core. It produces reference analysis for human underwriters and credit officers; it does not decide.
    • Built champion/challenger evaluation: reasoning agents run in parallel with human experts, scoring agreement, compliance alignment and decision drift — autonomy recommended only where the evidence supports it.
    • Architected RAG over a vectorized ontology data lake, grounding every reference valuation in traceable enterprise evidence rather than model recall. Governance-first on IBM watsonx; multi-model bench; tamper-evident audit trails.
    • watsonx
    • RAG
    • agentic orchestration
    • champion/challenger
    • BFSI

  2. 2022 — NOW · Remote

    CTO & VP of Product · Authentia Digital Product Passport

    TEAM :: 4–6 engineers · every one personally sourced, interviewed and hired

    • Built the engineering team from scratch — sourced, interviewed and hired every engineer on it — and lead all 4–6 across both Authentia product lines.
    • Architected digital product passports for diamonds, luxury goods and other high-value assets — a cryptographically anchored digital twin per item, origin through manufacturing to finished piece; tens of thousands of carats of natural diamonds under verifiable provenance.
    • Co-invented a computer-vision pipeline fusing laser marking with crystallographic topography analysis to defeat counterfeit provenance markings — patent application pending, named inventor.
    • Led the technical sales cycle with a global luxury jewelry house whose laser tags were being reproduced on lab-grown stones — diagnosed the failure mode and negotiated adoption of crystallographic topography analysis in their place.
    • digital product passports
    • computer vision
    • cryptographic provenance
    • TypeScript

  3. 2021 — 2022 · Remote

    VP of Product · GigaStar

    TEAM :: 6–8

    • Led a 6–8 person team to stand up GigaStar end-to-end — the first SEC-regulated (Reg CF) crowdfunding platform for YouTube creators, letting fans participate directly in channel revenue.
    • Structured fractional royalty offerings as compliant securities: creators raised immediate capital while token holders earned a share of monetized channel revenue.
    • Designed tiered, time-bound offering events that converted fan audiences into investors without creators ceding ownership of their channels.
    • SEC Reg CF
    • securities structuring
    • product leadership

  4. 2018 — 2021 · Cancún

    Lead Product Manager, Galaxy · GA Tech Solutions

    TEAM :: 15+

    • Took the Galaxy ticketing system into the Latin American market from zero, owning the full enterprise cycle personally — demos, technical evaluation, closing the sale and on-site installation — resulting in 12+ enterprise implementations across five countries to date.
    • Led a 15+ person team delivering those implementations.
    • Introduced Agile product management practice and delivered quantifiable results; maintained direct working relationships with the president and CEO.
    • Opened and led a new business line in 2021: distributed plug-and-play Ethereum validator hardware, and stood up a validator staking operation.
    • enterprise sales
    • solution delivery
    • Agile practice
    • Ethereum validators

  5. 2017 — 2021 · Cancún

    CTO · Ultramar Ferry

    engagement delivered through GA Tech Solutions

    TEAM :: 20+ developers plus technicians under team leads

    • Led an engineering organization of 20+ developers plus implementation, communications, maintenance and navigation technicians under team leads.
    • Hired and trained my own successor as CTO, handing over the platform and the engineering organization intact — still in production five years on.
    • Took the largest ferry operator in the Caribbean from paper-based workflows to one integrated platform — ticketing, access control, point-of-sale and mobile POS, back office, executive dashboards. 30M+ passengers boarded; in production since 2018.
    • Owned production operations down to the physical layer — hands-on managed the dedicated undersea fiber links connecting Cozumel, Isla Mujeres, Cancún and Playa del Carmen, and installed the hotspots carrying access control and mobile POS traffic, through Caribbean hurricane seasons.
    • Replaced legacy identification with facial-recognition access control — chronic terminal queues eliminated; the passenger app drove organic growth in tourist volume.
    • Android
    • Windows
    • POS systems
    • facial recognition
    • React
    • Node.js
    • SQL

  6. 2013 — 2017 · Mexico City

    VP of Technology · Farmacias Especializadas

    1. VP of Technology · 2015 — 2017 · promoted
    2. Solutions Architect · 2013 — 2015

    TEAM :: 16 direct · 45 indirect

    • Managed 16 direct and 45 indirect technologists across the design, development and support of every application running the enterprise — LatAm's leading pharmaceutical enterprise, 100+ owned pharmacies plus independent affiliates across the region.
    • Introduced co-insurance at point of sale — insurer-settled benefit discounts applied at the register, replacing pay-now-reimburse-later and materially improving patient access to medication.
    • Rebuilt point-of-sale, warehouse management, provider sourcing and billing/invoicing as one unified stack.
    • As Solutions Architect (2013 — 2015): migrated per-pharmacy on-premise servers to cloud infrastructure with zero disruption, under live commercial demand, without closing a single register.
    • cloud migration
    • POS
    • SQL
    • insurance integrations
    • enterprise applications

[ 03 :: CAPABILITY_MATRIX ]

01ARCHITECTURE & SYSTEMS

  • one hand from interface to backend
  • solo execution → engineering orgs of 60+
  • code-fluent & consultative
  • rapid synthesis in unfamiliar stacks

02DESIGN & DIRECTION

  • UI/UX end-to-end
  • identity & type systems
  • design systems & tokens
  • motion design
  • film direction: storyboard → shoot → cut
  • art direction

03AI & INFERENCE

  • on-device inference
  • RAG
  • agentic orchestration
  • multi-agent workflows
  • CoreML
  • GGUF
  • ONNX
  • CV pipelines
  • watsonx + Granite

04NATIVE & WEB

  • Swift
  • C++
  • Rust
  • TypeScript
  • Metal
  • Apple Silicon
  • React / Next.js
  • React Native
  • Node.js
  • Tailwind

05DATA

  • relational SQL
  • vector search
  • SQLite
  • LMDB
  • ontologies
  • pipelines

06CRYPTOGRAPHY & PRIVACY

  • AES-GCM
  • ChaCha20-Poly1305
  • Ed25519
  • BLAKE3

07PROVENANCE SYSTEMS

  • provenance contracts
  • cryptographically anchored digital twins
  • digital product passports
  • supply-chain traceability

08INFRA

  • CI/CD
  • serverless
  • edge/CDN
  • observability

[ 04 :: CREDENTIALS ]

Top 3% TalentVetted by Toptal · Verify (opens in new tab)
  • CERTCISCO :: CCNA_ROUTING_AND_SWITCHING[1000/1000]
  • CERTGATEWAY_TICKETING_SYSTEMS :: GALAXY_CERTIFIED_SYSTEM_ADMINISTRATOR[2019]
  • DEVAPPLE_DEVELOPER_PROGRAM :: NATIVE_C++/SWIFT_MEDIA_ENGINE[APP_STORE]
  • CERTIBM_WATSONX :: ENGINEERING_PARTNER[ACTIVE]
  • CERTPOINT_BLANK_MUSIC_COLLEGE_LONDON :: MUSIC_TECHNOLOGY[OK]
  • CERTIELTS :: ENGLISH_PROFICIENCY · BAND_9.0 EXPERT_USER[2017]
  • EDUB.S._ELECTRONICS_ENGINEERING :: MONTERREY_INSTITUTE_OF_TECHNOLOGY[HONOURS]
  • EDUPROFESSIONAL_CONCENTRATION_IN_TELECOMMUNICATIONS :: MONTERREY_INSTITUTE_OF_TECHNOLOGY[2013]
  • LANGMULTILINGUAL / MULTICULTURAL :: GLOBAL_BY_DEFAULT[NATIVE]
  • BIOIRONMAN_TRIATHLETE :: 140.6_MILES[2025]

[ 05 :: OPEN_SOURCE ]

github.com/frankie-muller (opens in new tab)

Three libraries, published so they stop being mine.

  • BITCOIN WALLET CORE

    BIP84 SPEC-VERIFIED

    A real Bitcoin address in about twelve milliseconds, derived in a browser tab with nothing on the wire — and it would accept an actual on-chain deposit. Twelve BIP39 words out of the browser's own CSPRNG, BIP32 down m/84'/0'/0'/0/0, out the far end a native SegWit bc1 address on mainnet. Checked against BIP84’s own test vector from the spec.

    TO DERIVE
    ~12 ms
    SPEC-VERIFIED
    BIP84
    MAINNET SEGWIT
    P2WPKH
    NETWORK CALLS
    0
    RUN IT (opens in new tab)READ IT (opens in new tab)MIT :: CLIENT-SIDE

  • ALCHEMY

    10,489 ARTISTS

    The genre taxonomy behind Octopus's discovery engine, lifted out and published on its own. Models drafted the artists and the one-line biographies; the judgement — what stayed, what was cut, where one pillar ends and the next begins — was mine. It ships as a dictionary, so nothing infers at runtime and nothing leaves the device.

    ARTISTS
    10,489
    PILLARS
    12
    SUB-CATEGORIES
    76
    INDEXED NAMES
    32,172
    RUN IT (opens in new tab)READ IT (opens in new tab)MIT :: CLIENT-SIDE

  • FUNKYNAMES

    46.3 BITS

    Readable handles from six curated pools, and the arithmetic that prices them. Keyspace, the birthday bound, and — the one that actually applies — the time to guess a name that is live right now, given how many are outstanding. Most generators stop at the first.

    WORDS
    3,030
    POOLS
    6
    4-WORD KEYSPACE
    84.3T
    BITS
    46.3
    RUN IT (opens in new tab)READ IT (opens in new tab)MIT :: CLIENT-SIDE

[ 06 :: PAPER_TRAIL ]

What I have argued in writing, put where it can be disagreed with.

  • Not artificial, not intelligent

    DEV.TO

    9 min

    A twelfth-century water clock ran a program in brass and every onlooker took it for a mind — we have been building gods out of gears and water since the beginning, and have never stopped believing they are real.

    Müller, F. (2026). Not artificial, not intelligent. dev.to.

    BLOGREAD_POST (opens in new tab)

  • Frontier Models Against High-Value Assets

    SSRN

    F. Müller

    Can a lender trust a language model to price an asset, and to price it the same way twice? And if one model earns that trust, is it the same model for every kind of asset?

    AGENTS
    22
    FRONTIER MODELS
    15
    ASSET CLASSES
    6
    SEALED EVENTS
    100K+

    Müller, F. (2026). Frontier Models Against High-Value Assets. SSRN.

    PAPERREAD_PAPER (opens in new tab)

[ 07 :: TRANSMIT ]

The next system is yours. Tell me what it has to survive.

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