Claudia Sotomayor
Engineer & Operations Leader
Bitcoin: where technology meets freedom
I'm Head of Operations at Aureo , a bitcoin exchange serving Mexico and El Salvador, where I lead compliance and operations.
Before bitcoin, I spent more than a decade as an engineer where failure wasn't an option: U.S. Navy weapons testing, SpaceX avionics and semiconductors.
I've talked about chips, missiles and bitcoin on The Bitcoin Mentor Podcast , written in defense of bitcoin for 14ymedio , and gave a commencement speech at the University of Florida.
Experience
Aureo
Head of Operations
Leading compliance and operations for a bitcoin exchange serving Mexico and El Salvador.
The Bitcoin Mentor
Bitcoin Consultant & Educator
Helped people take custody of their own bitcoin: multisig, running a node, mining, and personal security.
Walker Telecomm
Project Manager & Solutions Architect
Command-and-control centers for a $4B+ earthquake-recovery program at the Navy's China Lake test range.
U.S. Navy, Point Mugu
Principal Video Systems Engineer
Ran and designed video communications infrastructure for the command centers behind live weapons testing on the Point Mugu Sea Range.
Semtech
Failure Analysis Engineer II
Diagnosed failure mechanisms in semiconductors and integrated circuits.
SpaceX
Materials Engineer
Materials characterization, selection and failure analysis for avionics development.
Micron Technology
Integrated Circuit Failure Analysis Co-Op
Electron microscopy and failure analysis of integrated circuits to catch manufacturing defects.
University of Florida
B.S. Materials Science & Engineering
Commencement speaker, Florida Bright Futures Scholar, Dean's List.
Get in touch
I'm always happy to hear about new ideas, projects and roles. If you want to talk bitcoin, compliance, operations or engineering, send me an email or connect on X.