Edward Wertz

Edward Wertz is a Staff Engineer at Hashgraph, where since January 2023, efforts have focused on developing distributed ledger technology and the dapp ecosystem associated with Hedera Hashgraph and HBar cryptocurrency. Prior to this role, Edward served as a Software Engineer at L3Harris Technologies from January 2017 to January 2023, contributing to the research and development of a next-generation Mission Management System. Edward's academic experience includes teaching various computer science courses at Texas Tech University between January 2011 and January 2017. Additionally, experience as a Software Engineer at TidyLabs involved NLP techniques for text analysis, while earlier work at Mindreef as a Software Developer included Java development on SOAPscope. Edward holds a PhD in Computer Science from Texas Tech University and a degree in Discrete Mathematics and Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.