Our Priorities are Security, Availability and Features, in that order.
The PureStake team has extensive experience running highly available, highly secure global infrastructure supporting cloud and fintech applications as a service. All our infrastructure experience and operational best practices gathered over the last 20+ years has gone into a new platform purpose-built to support next generation blockchain networks. We use this platform to provide infrastructure as a service, API as a service, and validator services for proof of stake networks.
We believe in the power of blockchain technology to radically change and disrupt the traditional status quo in finance by allowing open protocols to govern the movement of value. We also believe in next-gen networks employing proof of stake-based consensus mechanisms as the path forward to solve existing blockchain scalability challenges.
We contribute back to the communities of the networks we support in the form of knowledge base articles, public API nodes, and open source code for bugfix and network features.
Who We Are
Derek Yoo CEO
Derek is a serial as-a-service technology entrepreneur. He has been building successful software and cloud companies for the last 20 years.
Prior to PureStake, Derek was the co-founder of Fuze, an enterprise Unified Communications as a Service provider. As the CTO of Fuze, he led the product and engineering teams in the creation of a global UCaaS cloud platform with points of presence all around the world, a low latency global network, and a suite of end user web, desktop, and mobile communications applications. During his time at Fuze the company grew to 700 employees and a $150M run rate.
Stefan Mehlhorn COO
Stefan is a serial technology entrepreneur with 25 years’ experience in technical operations leadership roles. He was most recently head of North America technical operations at Samsung Pay, responsible for the infrastructure, security, and customer support for the Samsung Pay service.
Prior to Samsung Stefan was the CEO of Collego, the creator of an XML based noSQL database, and later CEO of Permessa, provider of large-scale messaging management applications for enterprises.
Tim Baldwin VP of Engineering
Tim brings 20 years engineering experience leading application development and devops teams building and supporting as-a-service offerings.
Prior to PureStake, Tim was the VP of Engineering at Computer Services Inc, building and supporting a compliance API-as-a-Service supporting customers such as Google, eBay, Stripe, Facebook, Priceline, Uber, BB&T, Sungard, Huntington and Cybersource (Visa).
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