Vinny Frigatti

Seasoned engineer with a passion for building consumer products and tinkering with new technologies. Capable of taking products from concept to production serving thousands of users. Thrives in fast paced, ever changing environment. Crypto trader/investor.

2023

Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer

Watches.io (rebranding ongoing)

Watches.io is a tokenized watch trading marketplace (similar to Ebay) with blockchain-based components like NFT’s, payments, and smart contract escrow. The platform also hosts an on-chain collateralized lending protocol enabling users to lend against their watch value and analytics product for tracking the watch market. I led and largely developed the platform from scratch, end-to-end.

2017-2023

[Senior] Software Engineer

Prudential Financial

Developed inner workings of annuities/life insurance compensation systems paying 7 figure premiums and doing 150K+ transactions daily. Also contributed to building web application used by internal operations team. Led development initiatives around monolith to microservices migration, Kafka real-time data streaming, and flat file transfers to realtime API migrations.

Projects

2017

Co-Founder

pullup

Pullup is a mobile app P2P marketplace connecting drivers to street parking spots. it enables anyone to sell a parking spot they're in and those looking for a spot can buy it. Design from scratch and built with Swift for iOS.

2019

Ethereum Mining Operation

Managed and optimized an Ethereum mining operation, overseeing hardware setup, configuration, and maintenance of mining rigs to maximize hash rate and energy efficiency. Operational from 2019-2021.