Today, I am delighted to welcome Peter Wilson to Blockchain as Senior Vice President of Engineering. His leadership and innovation record in some of the fastest growing companies in the world will help us build a more transparent, secure and open financial future.

During a 20-year career as a director of engineering at Google, Facebook and Microsoft, Peter helped build the technology that fuels much of our lives today. # 39; hui. He led the development of advertising, chat, video and key card products at Google. During his stay at Facebook, he oversaw the development of advertising tools and APIs. If you've used Microsoft tools, it's likely that you've seen Peter's work – his teams have been working on the development tools and operating systems of the company.

Peter's talent as an engineer has only equaled his ability to build and manage large teams. As Blockchain prepares for a new year, the acquisition and leadership of world-class talent will be a priority. Peter is an expert in scaling up organizations and will contribute to these efforts. He held the position of director of the site of the Google Engineering Center in Kirkland as well as the Facebook office in Seattle, after the start of the co-founding by Facebook under his direction. Engineering organizations have grown under his leadership from where we are today to hundreds of engineers several times during his career. I can not wait to see him do the same here.

"I am delighted to welcome Peter to Blockchain to lead our engineering efforts.His decades-long experience and insight into the largest software companies are invaluable while we are scaling our team and delivering new products and services to our users " said Peter Smith, CEO and co-founder of Blockchain.

"Throughout my career, I've had the chance to create products and teams that equalize the odds and allow users to use software" ] . "I am more than delighted to join Blockchain and build an engineering organization in pursuit of a better financial future for all."

I am honored that Peter is joining us in our quest to make the world a better place, and delighted to share the news with users who do what we do every day.

If you are interested in joining Blockchain and contributing to our mission, visit https://www.blockchain.com/careers .