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Jarrod Watts

Developer Relations Engineer

Builder at heart. I help companies have developers fall in love with their tools by shipping educational content, demos, and developer tools.

What I've Shipped in 2026...

Lately, I'm obsessed with AI - especially AI developer tools.

I've recently been experimenting at the intersection of AI and money, building tools that allow AI agents to spend money using stablecoins.

Claude Code Hackathon
Feb 2026

ScuttlePay

Built a Shopify-integrated payments platform for the Claude Code hackathon that lets merchants accept USDC purchases from AI agents - each agent gets its own API key with configurable spending limits.

And of course, like everybody else - falling in love with OpenClaw.

I believe the most important skill in the world right now is the ability to orchestrate AI agents.

...and have been pushing this idea to the limits.

Feb 2026

Beating Anthropic's Kernel Challenge

I gave myself a challenge to beat Anthropic's kernel optimization challenge. Despite knowing nothing about kernel-level programming, I reached 1,145 cycles using orchestrated AI agents - beating both their hiring threshold (1,487) and their internal Claude Code record (1,363).

Beating Anthropic's Kernel Challenge

I shipped entire products in just a few days using a mix of the latest AI dev tools.

With AI, I fell in love with building things again, and shipped a bunch...

Claude Code EcosystemStarted making Claude Code plugins, then couldn't stop building more...
Jan 2025
#1 Trending on GitHub

Claude HUD reached #1 trending JS repository on GitHub.

Experience

I've spent 5 years in developer relations...

Polygon

Polygon

Senior Developer Relations Engineer·Jun 2023Aug 2024

Thirdweb

Thirdweb

Developer Relations Engineer·Apr 2022Jun 2023

Quantium

Quantium

Software Engineer·Feb 2020Apr 2022

Education

University of Technology Sydney

Bachelor of Information Technology

University of Technology Sydney·Graduated with Distinction

20172020

Sydney, Australia