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Jarrod Watts

Lead AI Engineer

Builder at heart. I spent years helping developers fall in love with new tools - now I build AI agents that act onchain, and the tools to orchestrate them.

What I've Shipped in 2026...

Now, I lead AI engineering at the Monad Foundation.

When TypeSafe released Jev, a model that makes decisions instead of writing text, I started putting it to work in real time...

...and handed an AI $1,000 of my own money.

AI is getting scary good at finding vulnerabilities.

...so I put it to work as a whitehat.

Joining Monad also had me reflecting a lot on "why crypto?"...

Earlier this year, I got obsessed with AI - especially AI developer tools.

I started experimenting at the intersection of AI and money, building tools that let AI agents 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

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 2026
#1 Trending on GitHub

Claude HUD reached #1 trending JS repository on GitHub.

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

Experience

I spent 4 years in developer relations before moving into AI engineering...

Monad Foundation

Monad Foundation

Current

Lead AI Engineer·Apr 2026 – Present

Polygon

Polygon

Senior Developer Relations Engineer·Jun 2023 – Aug 2024

Thirdweb

Thirdweb

Developer Relations Engineer·Apr 2022 – Jun 2023

Quantium

Quantium

Software Engineer·Feb 2020 – Apr 2022

Education

University of Technology Sydney

Bachelor of Information Technology

University of Technology Sydney·Graduated with Distinction

2017–2020

Sydney, Australia