Paul Gebheim

Product Architect & Engineering Leader — distributed systems, crypto infrastructure, applied AI

linkedin.com/in/pgebheim github.com/pgebheim

Summary

Hi, I’m Paul. I’ve spent the better part of 20 years building software that gets stuff done, makes things go, shows you what’s up, or keeps people connected — from real-time analytics at Justin.tv (before it became Twitch), to the first prediction market on Ethereum, to ZK at Polygon.

So I like software, but I love changing lives — whether that’s a beer social network (built one), a pay-it-forward fundraiser for charity: water (built that too), or a live-video app millions of people used (yep, that too). These days I run incubations at Sei Labs, where I’ve helped found two ventures and shipped an agent platform that runs whole companies.

Experience

Product Architect & Engineering Manager, Incubations May 2025 – Present

Sei Labs

Lead Sei’s incubations arm; helped found and launch multiple enterprises:
AI Infrastructure
- Neuromorphic Labs — founding team; raised $5M from Flying Fish Ventures.
- EICO — acoco.ai — founding engineer & team lead; architected and built the full multi-tenant, company-running agent loop platform; delivered V1.
Trading Applications
- Monaco — oversaw the engineering team for the initial build.
- Alpha — manage the engineering team building the product.

Senior Architect Dec 2022 – Apr 2025

Polygon Technology

Rolled out the Type-1 zkEVM prover — full Ethereum-equivalence proofs for real mainnet blocks at $0.002–0.003/tx (~36x cheaper than competing provers), covered by CoinDesk and Blockworks.
Architecture and design for AggLayer and Polygon blockchain infrastructure; architecture lead for Katana Blockchain (spun off from Polygon).
Co-authored PIP-18 (Polygon 2.0 Phase 0 — Frontier) and PIP-42 (upgrade PoS staking to POL).

Engineering Manager Nov 2021 – Dec 2022

Dapper Labs

Led the Flow blockchain governance team; authored FLIP-1057: Automated Slot Assignment (implemented) and edited FLIP-GOV-1: Maintain Staking Rewards.
Published the Flow Access Architecture Specification and led milestone delivery for permissionless contract deployment and segmented transaction fees (FLIP-660).

Head of Engineering Dec 2017 – Nov 2021

Augur Project

Led backend engineering for Augur V1 — the first prediction market platform live on Ethereum.
Owned the full end-to-end architecture for Augur V2.

Software Engineering Contractor Sep 2016 – Aug 2017

Swoop, Inc · San Francisco Bay Area — acquired by Agero

Shipped tow-truck dispatch software; integrated the platform with a third-party data provider, opening job flow from insurance companies and motor clubs.
Owned research, architecture, and testing for the Rails backend; supported live customer issues.

Senior Software Engineer Nov 2010 – Jul 2014

Monkey Inferno · San Francisco

Built Beerhunt — iOS beer social network (“Foursquare for beer”), launched at DEMO Mobile 2013.
Built Blab — 1-to-many group live-video social network.
Built Water Forward — viral pay-it-forward fundraising engine for charity: water.

Senior Software Engineer Oct 2009 – Nov 2010

Justin.tv

Maintained and replaced legacy statistics system; implemented a log analytics framework on Hadoop Map/Reduce.
Created a real-time discrete event tracking system on MongoDB — presented at MongoSF.
Built Beancounter, a web front-end for visualizing time-series statistics, plus JavaScript libraries for user tracking and log generation.
Implemented an iPhone push notification provider system.

Senior Software Engineer Mar 2006 – May 2009

Coral8, Inc — merged with Aleri; acquired by Sybase (now SAP)

Built core components of the Complex Event Processing engine in C++: high-speed data bus, pub/sub queuing, reliable persistent transport.
Designed and implemented SOAP/HTTP RPC layers, remote-database caching, and ACL-based client/server security.
Designed persistent data structures on a SQLite-based persistence engine; helped build the high-speed query execution engine.
Gave lectures on Coral8 internals to partners.

Executive Student Programmer Sep 2004 – Mar 2006

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Supported public and private network access for hotel guests and UW staff.
Designed and optimized a marketing data warehouse; built ASP.NET front-ends and automated data synchronization from external stores.
Maintained VB/database financial applications and custom ASP/ASP.NET apps for student data and course enrollment.

Current Projects

lilco-dev — personal projects

liluser — Agentic-user testing: AI agents that use your product like a real user, surfacing UX issues before humans hit them.
lilbox — Instant, isolated Linux boxes: Rust CLI for booting hypervisor-isolated libkrun microVMs (~1–2s boot) on your own hardware, with tailnet/HTTPS publishing in one command — built for safely running untrusted and AI-generated code.

rig — Agent rig

Copy-in kit of config-driven agent skills, agents, and CI templates — native to Claude Code, adaptable to any AGENTS.md-reading agent.

Talks & Media

"I Dismissed Web3 + AI, I Was Wrong" — ETHDenver 2026, AI stage (speaker page)
"Chainless Architectures" — SBC '25 Whitepaper Reading Sessions, with Brian Seong (paper)
"AggLayer's Road to Mainnet" — AggSummit, with Gabriel Silva (recap + video)
Forecast Foundation Keynote — Augur (video)
"Prediction & Replication Markets" — Foresight Institute panel, with Robin Hanson, Martin Koeppelmann, and others (video)
"Human Readable Security" — DWeb Camp 2022 lightning talk on Cadence (session)
Full Stack Leader Podcast, Ep. 11 — engineering leadership at Dapper Labs (episode)
Open AGI Summit — Devconnect panel (event)

Education

B.S., Computer Science 2005