Henry Harder is CTO at Paradigm. System architecture, backend engineer, and network operations. Head of Financial Research, Blockchain at Columbia. Computer Science, Columbia University School of Engineering. I am currently a member of the Undergraduate School of Engineering and Applied Science at Columbia University class of 2021. I am pursuing a B.S. in Computer Science and Computer Engineering. I am the CTO and a cofounder of Paradigm, a startup working on a distributed global relay and settlement network for tokenized financial instruments and exchange logic. My focus and main interest is in distributed systems and network architecture. Additionally, I am also a member of the Blockchain at Columbia, an on-campus organization, which works on research, outreach, and education in the quickly developing and expanding world of blockchain technology and decentralized systems.