Sam Padilla

PM & Engineering

I was part of the founding team of the Web3 team at Google, joining as the second engineer. We had the peculiar mission of figuring out what it meant to "do crypto" at a company like Google.

Throughout the 2.5 years in the team, I spread my time across solutions engineering, validator operations, and product management. I spun up a mantained the first official Google validator, reaching around 14 validators by the end of my time at Google. I also led the development of a new Ethereum validator product as the product manager and contributed to several open source projects in the process.

Governance and Policy Contributor

I joined ATX DAO in the winter of 2021. ATX DAO is an organization dedicated to advancing the city of austin via crypto. The DAO promotes events to connect the crypto communities of Austin, enables businesses and artist to leverage crypto, and educates the local government on web3.

Some of my biggest contributions to the DAO were re-designing the governance system and being heavily involved in our policy attempts to pass a DAO law in texas. I was inolved in the drafting of the proposed law, educating policmakers, and testified in front of the Texas congress a couple of times.

Co-Founder and CEO

Steven Mentor was my first company started during my sophomore year of college. It was an education company helping immigrants adapt to the U.S. and break into the American job market. I ran Steven Mentor for two years, participating in several fellowship and accelerators, and raising short of $50k in grant prizes. We reached over 100 students across our programs in the two years I led the company.

Retention Insights was a job and student satisfaction data collection software I built my senior year of college and ended up commercializing. We closed semester-long contracts with 2 universities and 3 local manufacturing companies, reaching over 1,000 users total. We had built a gamefied survey system that was achieving 50% higher completion rates than the national average. We had offers to extend our contracts by the time my graduation date came, but I decided to shut down the company and join Google upon graduation.