CTO Advisor (Crypto-Native)

What You’ll Do (Responsibilities)

• Establish release gates in CI/CD (tests/coverage, static checks, feature flags, canary/shadow) and clear rollback/kill-switch triggers.
• Implement SRE fundamentals: 3–5 SLOs (e.g., data freshness, job success rate, API latency/availability, exception closure time) with an error-budget policy.
• Enforce Change & Exceptions Logs; drive post-mortems (Sev-1/2) with action items and owners.
• Pair with Quant to harden AI index safety (model/versioning, parity tests, drift/health alerts).
• Produce concise runbooks & dashboards; coach engineering leads; hand back the system.

What You Won’t Do (Scope guardrails)

• No day-to-day people management or sprint ownership.
• No wallet signatory or payment approvals.
• No changes to liquidity or emissions policy (owned by the $TMAI council).

Qualifications

• Must-have
• 4+ years leading engineering in crypto (protocol/DeFi, exchange, market/data infra, or comparable).
• Proven SDLC/DevOps/CI-CD and SRE practice (SLOs + error budgets + incident response).
• Experience shipping data/ML systems or MLOps basics (versioning, parity tests, safe rollout).
• Excellent technical writing and async collaboration.
• Nice-to-have
• Smart-contract security/audit handoffs; keys/secrets/multisig hygiene.
• Prior work with index/market-data pipelines or exchange connectivity.

Success Metrics (first 90 days)

• Reliability: measurable reduction in failures (e.g., Sev-1/MTTR ↓ ≥20%; regression escapes ↓ ≥30%).
• Hygiene: 100% prod changes pre-logged; Sev-1 post-mortems with actions ≤72h; SLOs live and reported monthly.
• Adoption: release gates and runbooks in use by named owners without advisor involvement.

Collaboration

• Operating Chair (monthly business review), Quant (AI indices), $TMAI observers (liquidity dependencies), Finance & Controls (audit evidence).

How to Apply

• Share:
• 1) a redacted SLO doc you authored
• 2) a redacted incident/runbook you wrote, 3) two sentences on your biggest reliability turnaround and the gate you added afterward.