Francis O’Brien is the Head of Developer Relations at the Polymesh Association. He became intrigued with the benefits blockchain offers the securities industry in 2017 when Polymath launched its tokenization platform, and quickly became an active member of the Polymath and later Polymesh community.

Known in the community as “FOB”, Francis has been a key advocate for Polymesh due to his excellent ability to communicate his deep technical understanding of the blockchain. As Head of Developer Relations, Francis now focuses on growing the Polymesh ecosystem by creating educational resources for developers and coordinating the grants program and bug bounties.

Prior to Polymesh, Francis enjoyed a 17 year career as a product engineer within the highly regulated oil and gas industry after graduating as a Mechanical Engineer from Cork Institute of Technology in 2004. He has worked on a range of products for global projects and has been granted multiple patents.