Software Engineer
Facebook
Dec 2013 - Apr 2022 (8 years 5 months)
After helping start Diem, Kevin Hurley most recently served as the overall tech lead for both Meta Payments as well as Novi/Diem. On the more traditional side of payments, he designed and built Messenger p2p payments, Meta's non-merchant of record payment engine, an extensive financial instrument tokenization engine and WhatsApp payments. In the crypto/blockchain world, Kevin currently serves as a maintainer on the Diem project and designed and built much of the internals of Novi and Diem - including the overall system design, mempool, client-facing interfaces, state synchronization, and much more.
06/2018-present
Blockchain team @ Facebook
12/2013 - 06/2018
Tech lead on payments platform. WhatsApp P2P, P2P payments in messenger, Uber/L