John Pearson, Ph.D.

John Pearson is a senior software engineer at Nexus Labs, where he builds next-generation DeFi infrastructure. His current work centers on agentic AI systems: he architected a Claude Code agent swarm of 100+ specialized subagents that coordinate in parallel, enforce architecture decisions, and routinely compress multi-week engineering efforts into single days. He also builds AI-powered internal tools for non-technical teammates, including risk analyzers accessible via Slack and a Kanban board backed by an MCP server. The core framework is open source at Web3-Claude.

Before engineering, John spent 15 years as an educator. He chaired the Science Department at Pace Academy in Atlanta, managing a team of 10 faculty members while teaching AP and Honors mathematics, physics, and computer science at every grade level. He designed curricula, ran hiring processes, and built a multi-year statistical analysis in R of ~3M data points across 100K+ student records — with interactive Shiny dashboards presented to administration to improve equity and decision-making. The instinct that drove him into software engineering — seeing a broken process and building the tool to fix it — was born in the classroom.

John has coached rowing for over 20 years. He currently serves as Head Masters Women's Coach at the Atlanta Rowing Club, where his team finished 1st nationally in the Masters Club Category and has earned 15+ National Championship medals since 2021. Before that, he spent eight years as Head Coach of the Atlanta Junior Rowing Association, coordinating a staff of 15 coaches and a nationally competitive team of 100+ junior rowers.

He holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Georgia Tech, where his thesis on the noncommutative geometry of ultrametric Cantor sets won the department's Best Ph.D. Thesis Award. He earned his B.A. in Mathematics from Dartmouth College. His published research spans noncommutative Riemannian geometry and the geometry of the gamma function in the American Mathematical Monthly and the Journal of Noncommutative Geometry. He continues to work on generalized Pythagorean number theory.