American Express
Alert-to-report automation prototype
Prototyped systems that used alert data to assemble the investigative workflow and SAR-ready package end to end, preserving the final human regulatory gate.
Compliance automation for crypto and fintech
Dallas Gold
I build AML/BSA, sanctions, transaction monitoring, and crypto risk systems that move compliance from manual casework toward audited, validated automation.
- Compliance core
- AML/BSA, SAR workflows, transaction monitoring, tuning, QC, and regulatory evidence.
- Automation edge
- Product ownership, SQL pipelines, AI/ML analytics, workflow automation, and alert intelligence.
- Crypto native
- Wallet auth, ZK proofs, Safe controls, NFT markets, sanctions screening, and on-chain risk.
The thesis
Compliance should become a tested system, not a permanent queue.
My belief is direct: after rigorous testing, monitoring, auditability, and approved governance, ordinary compliance execution should require less human handling at every step from alert through report package.
Humans should stay where they create legal, judgment, exception, and governance value. The rest should be engineered as a measurable control system.
System view
Alert data should carry the case farther.
Evidence
The background is not theoretical.
Public, NDA-safe snapshot of the work most relevant to a compliance automation product role.
Mastercard Global FIU
Transaction monitoring tuning
Built SQL-driven analysis across high-risk jurisdictions, issuer and merchant attributes, historical alert data, and behavioral patterns to improve threshold recommendations.
Prime Trust
Crypto trust compliance framework
Helped build AML/BSA policies, procedures, product controls, transaction monitoring calibration, and regulatory monitoring concepts inside a fast-moving crypto trust company.
MVB Bank
Operational compliance systems
Improved monitoring efficiency with dashboards, SQL pipelines, QC automation, and reporting workflows that made compliance operations easier to measure and govern.
Operating principles
Automation only works when the control story is stronger.
Move human effort out of routine compliance handling after rigorous testing, governance, and regulator-ready validation.
Design alert, enrichment, detection, narrative, report preparation, and evidence retention as one auditable system.
Reserve human review for required approvals, exceptions, policy judgment, model governance, and continuous control testing.
Build crypto controls early: wallet risk, sanctions screening, signature verification, on-chain state, and operational audit trails.
Side projects
Crypto systems described at the architecture level.
Public, generic summaries of pseudonymous work across ownership, privacy, governance, automation, and risk infrastructure.
NFT marketplace infrastructure
Built wallet-authenticated marketplace flows for crypto collectibles, including signed listings and offers, collection browsing, profile views, third-party liquidity ingestion, order storage, reconciliation jobs, and market data syncs.
Zero-knowledge proof service
Built privacy-preserving proof infrastructure with Merkle roots, browser proving, proof artifacts, wallet proof JWTs, API metadata, partner access controls, origin registration, usage metering, and server-side verification.
Wallet safety and delegation controls
Built Safe-oriented NFT operations tooling for wallet consolidation, delegation registration and revocation, batch transfer guardrails, checksum validation, zero/self blocking, confirmation gates, and mainnet chain checks.
Anonymous community publishing
Built a privacy-preserving posting flow with captcha checks, rate limits, wallet proof receipts, one-time receipt consumption, and direct platform posting without exposing exact wallet, reputation level, IP, or user-agent data in the post payload.
Sanctions screening layer
Built crypto sanctions infrastructure with deterministic wallet address screening, batch and name-review endpoints, API-key controls, multi-source watchlist ingestion, dataset status metadata, and operator-facing review signals.
NFT-secured credit prototype
Built smart-contract patterns for NFT-backed lending that preserve holding incentives through Safe guards, liquidation modules, EOA deposit penalties, loan lifecycle flows, and mainnet deployment preflight checks.
Reputation-weighted marketplace
Built privacy-first marketplace concepts for routing reputation-weighted voting or service capacity with ZK range proofs, blind requests, escrow-style workflows, compliance endpoints, and admin operations.
Delegation service control plane
Built a managed delegation router with staker onboarding, system wallet assignment, demand routing, capacity reservation, conflict guardrails, completion records, and exportable activity events for reward review.
Token and reward accounting
Built shared tokenomics and reward distribution infrastructure, including capped supply policy, Merkle reward epochs, service-fee settlement helpers, shielded-pool accounting, claim-site scaffolding, and release gates.
Wallet-gated physical access
Built a hybrid smart-lock architecture where wallet signatures, policy checks, booking windows, short-lived signed grants, replay protection, local device verification, and audit logs govern access.
Decentralized VPN architecture
Built an NFT-gated VPN prototype with SIWE authentication, WireGuard peer lifecycle, node registry and staking contracts, subscription and payment routing, private payout concepts, CLI tooling, and broad test coverage.
Community graph and analytics tools
Built dashboards and visualizations for crypto community data, including holder graphs, voting outcomes, activity metrics, sentiment indices, API syncs, Supabase persistence, and public charting views.
AI community operations bots
Built bots and summarizers that authenticate with wallet-backed APIs, monitor community channels, translate multilingual threads, summarize activity, post plain-English code changes, and retain local conversation context.
Immersive wallet-authenticated spaces
Built 3D community and art experiences with wallet login relays, profile and NFT image proxies, avatar-based globes, EIP-191 signature unlocks, replay windows, and clear no-permission message-signing flows.