Philip Arthur Moore

PHILIP ARTHUR MOORE

Entrepreneur and Seed Investor

EXPERIENCE

CEO and Co-Lead at Hot Cross

Oct 2020 - Present Full-time

Vietnam

Hot Cross is an extensive multi-chain and cross-chain tool suite that enables blockchain teams and their communities to thrive. At its core, Hot Cross aims to be the best toolbox for ETH and EVM networks. Their development philosophy is agile, and they are a cohort of builders who aggressively seek out opportunities to meet the demands of the now for both B2B and B2C. The core thesis that Hot Cross presents is that users and teams will migrate in part to new networks that feel familiar when presented with good tooling and freedom. Hot Cross is a company and an ecosystem in and of itself, and our goals are towards allowing communities to flourish using our technologies, whether or not they know we are the ones building them.

Chief Operating Officer at Frontier

Jun 2020 - Present Full-time

Vietnam

Frontier is a chain-agnostic DeFi aggregation layer. Supports Ethereum, Cosmos Network, Binance chain, and will imminently support the Polkadot ecosystem. With its applications, users can participate in protocol tracking and management, staking, best-rate asset swapping, liquidity provision, CDP creation & monitoring, and more.

Philip Arthur Moore facilitates the growth of Frontier through integration and decentralized protocol discovery, QA, and industry research. He also assists with back-end operations and B2B planning for a broader mobile DeFi expansion path. Frontier is a chain-agnostic DeFi aggregation layer. We support Ethereum, Cosmos Network, Binance chain, and will imminently support the Polkadot ecosystem. With our applications, users can participate in protocol tracking and management, staking, best-rate asset swapping, liquidity provision, CDP creation & monitoring, and more. He facilitates the growth of Frontier through integration and decentralized protocol discovery, QA, and industry research. He also assists with back-end operations and B2B planning for a broader mobile DeFi expansion path.

Head Of Research And Development at Frontier

Apr 2019 - Nov 2021

His role as Head of Research and Development is to facilitate the growth of our company through testing, fact-finding, integration discovery, and QA. He focuses on product development, testing, and everything behind the scenes that goes into making Frontier the best DeFi ecosystem aggregator that we're able to provide to users who care about complete financial freedom. Manage your DeFi positions across various protocols without compromising your safety or security. Frontier tracks multiple portfolios, allows users to earn interest on their decentralized assets, and does it in a way that's completely noncustodial. His role as Head of Research and Development is to facilitate the growth of our company through testing, fact-finding, integration discovery, and QA. He focuses on product development, testing, and everything behind the scenes that goes into making Frontier the best DeFi ecosystem aggregator that we're able to provide to users who care about complete financial freedom.

Founder at We Cobble

Full-time

Apr 2017 - May 2020

Worldwide

We’re We Cobble, and we build digital products for people. We make messaging platform sticker packs, iOS apps, WordPress themes and plugins, decentralized applications, online courses, stock photography, and bespoke website design and development. Our job is quite simple: to figure out digital products and services, and then do it in a way that’s human.

CTO at Professional Themes

Feb 2014 - Apr 2017

New York City

Professional Themes is an open-source software company that specializes in online solutions for small businesses. It helps customers build beautiful websites. His role as CTO encompasses every facet of technology at the company, both internally (infrastructure) and externally (product). Its primary focus is helping customers build beautiful websites, whether it's through WordPress theme and plugin development, customized projects, or partnerships.

Premium Theme Lead at WordPress.com.

May 2013 - Jan 2014

The majority of his working hours are spent feverishly obsessing over making premium themes a world-class experience for all WordPress users. This means a lot of different things: ensuring that customers are well-supported in our premium themes forum; auditing with team, line by line, every single piece of code that comes into WordPress.com in the form of a premium theme; educating the WordPress theming community on proper approaches to WordPress theme development; and with colleagues coming up with strong, robust guidelines for developing themes the WordPress.com way.

Theme Wrangler at WordPress.com

Oct 2011 - May 2013

You live and breathe WordPress themes. You are equally at home in Photoshop/Gimp, PHP, CSS, or the terminal. You’ve built numerous WordPress-as-CMS sites from scratch. Everything you’ve touched is GPL. You’ve probably written a theme framework.

Developer at Graph Paper Press

Sep 2009 - Sep 2011

WordPress Theme Development, User Support, Front-End Web Development

Lecturer, Faculty of Information Technology, Hanoi University

Apr 2010 - Jan 2011

Volunteer instructor in the Faculty of Information Technology at Hanoi University (Volunteers in Asia (VIA) Programs) and a recipient of a 2010 Ford Foundation Community Fellowship.

Front-End Web Developer at Big Square Dot

Jan 2007 - Jan 2010

Big Square Dot is a personally owned and maintained business that provides clients with contract web work and consultation. The majority of projects involve HTML/CSS/Javascript coding, WordPress/PHP development, general site maintenance, and webmastering. Big Square Dot is a personally owned and maintained business that provides clients with contract web work and consultation. The majority of projects involve HTML/CSS/Javascript coding, WordPress/PHP development, general site maintenance, and webmastering.

Audio Manager, Digital Video Editor Audio at Rice University Language Resource Center

Jun 2001 - Dec 2006

Audio Manager, Digital Video Editor, Web Editor (Digitize foreign language CDs, audio tapes, and VHS tapes into stream-able formats for online viewing). The Rice University LRC provides students in the Rice community with foreign language homework assistance through various methods, including listening exercises, video exercises, and interactive programs aimed at creating fluency in the students' target languages.

PERSONAL

Married.