[ ../ ](/) # About **Aaron Madved** has been building software for over a decade, with a career that weaves between traditional finance and the cutting edge of crypto. His journey began in Shanghai during the 2017 ICO boom, where he worked on exchanges and blockchain infrastructure at Viewfin. After a stint in Germany modernizing legacy systems, he brought his fullstack expertise to Pittsburgh, working on cloud computing with Microsoft and CMU before spending three years in Hong Kong as a Lead Backend Engineer at BCW, architecting enterprise staking platforms, cross-chain bridges, and RPC infrastructure. Aaron returned to the US and has been a Tech Lead at CGI and now **PNC**, where he navigates the complexities of financial systems while maintaining a deep connection to crypto, AI, and decentralized technologies. As a battle tested engineer, he's built crypto exchanges during a market frenzy, architected cross-chain bridges, managed globally distributed node operations, led teams across multiple financial clients, and shipped everything from Angular component libraries to AI agent swarm infrastructure and has an ever growing collection of scars from production outages to prove it.