Trent Larson

Built systems for asset trading on distributed ledgers, land ownership recording in the global south and the U.S., and digitization/search of county recorder documents with pipelines, including AI. Spearheaded tech and communication for projects on blockchain-backed land records and end-user cryptographic-key integration.

Engineer & Manager (Sr Mgr of Dev) - Medici Ventures / Land Governance - Salt Lake City, Utah

(2014-01 - 2026-01)

Built systems for asset trading on distributed ledgers, land ownership recording in the global south and the U.S., and digitization/search of county recorder documents with pipelines, including AI. Spearheaded tech and communication for projects on blockchain-backed land records and end-user cryptographic-key integration.

• Delivered country-scale titling & US county document recorder software.
• Helped implement the first SEC-approved exchange for digital public shares based on a blockchain.
• Used Node & TypeScript, OpenAI & Anthropic, Kotlin & Scala & Java/Spring, React, Bitcoin, Ethereum, GCP & AWS, Kubernetes

Manager (SVP of IT) - Cane Bay Partners - Christiansted, U.S. Virgin Islands

(2012-01 - 2014-01)

Restored a development team and upgraded corporate infrastructure to support significant international growth.

• Led data center refreshes, deployments, and IT project tracking across the business.
• Managed work involving VB.NET, ASP.NET, IIS, VMware, SQL Server, MySQL, Git, and Jira.

Engineer & Manager (VP of Software Development) - Max International - Salt Lake City, Utah

(2008-01 - 2012-01)

Built and then led the systems behind associate sign-ups, reporting, notifications, and business operations. Created APIs and UX flows for web and mobile experiences, user notifications, and corporate reporting.

• Used Java/Spring, Wicket, OSGi, JavaScript, Ruby on Rails, MySQL, Linux, Amazon EC2/S3, Twilio, and Google integrations.

Engineer & Manager (Director of IT) - Icentris, Inc. - Salt Lake City, Utah

(2000-01 - 2010-01)

Directed implementation of the flagship product and expanded the technical organization from 10 to 30 people across three units, including an India team. Implemented order-entry systems for a $300M corporation operating world-wide. Created deployment processes supporting concurrent client customizations and staggered releases on one codebase.

• Used Java/J2EE, Spring, Struts, Hibernate, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Tomcat, WebLogic, JBoss, SOAP, Linux, and Jira APIs.

Research Assistant - Laboratory for Applied Logic - Provo, Utah

(1995-01 - 2000-01)

Worked on formal methods and theorem-proving for hardware specification and verification, while teaching and presenting research.

• Completed and defended two theses, supported university teaching, and presented internationally.
• Used HOL, ML, Java, Lisp, C, C++, Haskell, Eiffel, Smalltalk, Mathematica, and Unix tools.

PhD - Computer Science - Brigham Young University (2002-01)

MS - Computer Science - Brigham Young University (1998-01)

BS - Computer Science - University of Utah (1995-01)