Nicole Lynn Sanders

Nicole Lynn Sanders

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Fractional CTO for Crypto & Blockchain Companies | Custody, Tokenization, Onchain Tooling | Writer & Content Creator
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

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  • STO Foundation
    Global Director of Education
    STO Foundation
    Jul 2026 - Current (3 months)
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    Founder & Principal Consultant
    NLJTS Consulting LLC
    Dec 2025 - Current (10 months)
    • Fractional CTO — Owning technical strategy, platform architecture, and engineering execution for crypto-native brands. Current work spans an onchain investigations brand (platform development, analysis tooling, technical research) and a consumer crypto brand (custom platform built end-to-end from concept through launch).
    • Technical & Product Advisory — Helping early-stage blockchain teams make better architecture, product, and roadmap decisions. Topics include custody, tokenization, smart-contract design, and blockchain-native engineering best practices.
    • Content & Thought Leadership — Producing technical content for tokenization and capital-markets clients, translating complex financial and onchain concepts into clear posts,
  • Anchorage Digital
    Engineering Lead
    Anchorage Digital
    Aug 2024 - Dec 2025 (1 year 5 months)
  • Realio
    Chief Technology Officer
    Realio
    Nov 2023 - Jul 2024 (9 months)
  • Nerd United
    Director of Engineering
    Nerd United
    Apr 2023 - Nov 2023 (8 months)
  • Utah Blockchain Coalition
    Vice Chair
    Utah Blockchain Coalition
    Feb 2023 - May 2026 (3 years 4 months)
  • TaxBit
    Principal Developer Advocate
    TaxBit
    Jul 2022 - Dec 2022 (6 months)
  • Utah Blockchain Coalition
    Executive Board Member
    Utah Blockchain Coalition
    Mar 2022 - Feb 2023 (1 year)
  • TaxBit
    Principal Software Engineer
    TaxBit
    Jun 2021 - Jul 2022 (1 year 2 months)
    Leading blockchain research and development for TaxBit, specifically for Decentralized Finance (DeFi) and non-fungible token (NFT) contracts.
  • tZERO Group Inc
    Development Team Lead
    tZERO Group Inc
    May 2020 - Jun 2021 (1 year 2 months)
    Lead for the Crypto App team
  • tZERO Group Inc
    Senior Software Developer
    tZERO Group Inc
    Aug 2015 - May 2020 (4 years 10 months)
    Blockchain development for capital markets
  • Raytheon
    Software Engineer II
    Raytheon
    May 2012 - Aug 2015 (3 years 4 months)
  • Galileo Processing
    Junior Programmer in QA
    Galileo Processing
    May 2011 - May 2012 (1 year 1 month)
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    QA Intern
    BlueCoat Systems
    Mar 2009 - Aug 2009 (6 months)
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    Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
    School of Computing University of Utah
    Jan 2005 - Jan 2011 (6 years 1 month)
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    Blockchain 101: Learn the Basics of a New Technology
    DEC
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    Art Basel Miami: Pulse Check
    DEC
    A retrospective on America’s premier art show from a Web3 perspective
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    What Is Crypto Staking and How Does It Work?
    OCT
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    Uniswap V3 Liquidity Pools and the Taxable Implications: Entering an LP
    DEC
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    What Are Crypto Airdrops and How Do They Work?
    OCT
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    Web3 & AI: Conjoined twins of trendy tech
    DEC
    Web3 and AI are the conjoined twins of trendy tech these days, and although there is some overlap between them, they are two distinct fields.
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    What Are Smart Contracts?
    TaxBitcom Mar
    Smart contracts help you conduct business on the blockchain. And while they have many advantages, smart contracts still come with their own unique set of challenges compared to standard software development.
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    tZERO Token: Why ERC-20?
    mediumcom May
    Description tZERO token’s technical details
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    What Is DeFi and How Does It Work?
    Sep
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    Blockchain forks: what the fork are they?
    Medium Sep
    With the Ethereum merge from proof of work to proof of stake happening in a few days, more and more people are wondering what a blockchain fork even is. Let me lay it out for you in a simple way.