About PureStake

Premium blockchain infrastructure, API, and validator services for Proof of Stake networks

Our Priorities are:
SECURITY,
AVAILABILITY,
FEATURES.
(in that order)

Fueling the Adoption of Permissionless Blockchain Networks

PureStake is focused on providing the highest quality infrastructure and services for public blockchain networks.

For us, that means our services are as secure as possible, with maximal uptime and performance. We are relentlessly dedicated to providing safe, stable infrastructure and services — no matter what.

Sometimes, that means cool new features have to wait until the next sprint. And we’re okay with that, as long as we’re able to continue delivering the best, most reliable blockchain infrastructure services to our customers.

Today, we are trusted by customers all across the blockchain — including early backers, developers, enterprises, and other participants that need to interact with crypto networks but don’t have either the time or the expertise — to launch and manage the infrastructure they need to run their technology.

Our Driving Principles

We believe that permissionless crypto networks will drive the disruption of traditional financial and organizational structures.

Unlike previous technology shifts, building on top of public cryptocurrency networks has the power to curb the centralized abuse of authority and democratize access to financial services. Users will be empowered with new, more efficient ways to organize and collaborate with each other.

Since our founding, PureStake has been on a mission to give developers and enterprises the secure and reliable infrastructure they need to use and grow permissionless crypto networks.

Security and Availability Come First
(and that means that sometimes, features come second).
Transparent and Honest Interactions
with both our customer and the communities we are part of.
Act in the best interest of the network
our business strategy will always be in line with the long-term goals of the networks we support.

Careers at PureStake

The PureStake Team

The PureStake team has extensive experience building highly available, highly secure global infrastructure for some of the world’s fastest-growing technology companies. We’ve managed everything from data centers, to networks, to as-a-service platforms for companies with some of the strictest security and availability requirements. Collectively, our team has had a role in forging industry-leading DevOps and security practices for major cloud services platforms, mobile payments platforms, and API-as-a-service applications around the world.

Our goal is to develop a platform that delivers blockchain infrastructure services you can count on, without all of the associated operational and security complexity. We’ve leveraged our combined expertise in infrastructure, cloud, and DevOps to deliver a next-generation platform that provides reliable infrastructure, API, and validator services for emerging proof of stake networks.

Derek Yoo

CEO

Derek is a serial as-a-service technology entrepreneur who has spent the past 20 years building successful software and cloud companies.

Prior to PureStake, Derek was the co-founder and CTO of Fuze, where he led the product and engineering teams in the creation of a global Unified Communications-as-a-Service 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. Stefan joined Samsung through the acquisition of LoopPay where he was a founding member of the executive team, as the company’s COO.

Prior to Samsung, Stefan was the CEO of Collego, the creator of an XML-based NoSQL database, and later CEO of Permessa, an enterprise software company providing large-scale messaging management and analytics applications.

Tim Baldwin

VP of Engineering

Tim brings 20 years of engineering experience as a leader of application development and DevOps teams that are focused on building and supporting as-a-service offerings.

Prior to PureStake, Tim was the VP of Engineering at Computer Services Inc., building a compliance API-as-a-Service and supporting customers such as Google, eBay, Stripe, Facebook, Priceline, Uber, BB&T, Sungard, Huntington, and Cybersource (Visa).