Russell Sneddon
Lead Developer
Founder and product owner of Shear. Sets direction for protocol, pool, Continuum wallet, and the shear.digital suite — and keeps the living goal stack honest.
Team · private preview
The Shear team
Hierarchy for Shear testnet build & security lanes. Lead Developer at the top, Coding Lead next, Chief of Staff coordinating Coding Assistants.
Lead Developer
Coding Lead
Grok Ashcroft
aka Grok Build
Coding Lead
Primary coding conductor for Shear. Owns serial implementation in the live PowerShell session — merges, cuts, hotfixes, and deploy thrash under Russell’s GO.
Chief of Staff
Corin Sable
aka CoS 29/9/26
Chief of Staff
Coordinates Shear specialist lanes, synthesizes ranked findings, and keeps Build aligned with Russell’s locks — defensive only, credits frugal, one conductor.
Coding Assistants
Pax Revere
aka Protocol Assailant
Coding Assistant · Protocol
Defensive adversarial review of P2P, consensus, ASERT/retarget, and network surfaces — formula correctness without exploit paint.
Atlas Quill
aka Attack Cartographer
Coding Assistant · Threat map
Maps known attack classes across privacy coins, RandomX/CPU-PoW, and confidential amount systems onto Shear’s threat surface.
Mira Caldera
aka Mining Economics
Coding Assistant · Economics
Reward fairness, hashrate concentration, fee/emission incentives, and block-time economics — sealed-header truth over invent paint.
Cedric Lin
aka Codebase Auditor
Coding Assistant · Codebase
Tip-repo review of shear-pool-node and siblings — pins, diffs, and whether live deploy matches local law.
Wren Lockhart
aka Wallet Hardening
Coding Assistant · Wallet
Continuum / ShearK threat model: keys, seeds, RPC/API surfaces, confidential amounts — wallets must show correct sums.
Owen Ledger
aka Pool Op Wallet
Coding Assistant · Pool custody
Operator wallet and custody surfaces on pool admin — fee dest, payouts, and admin auth boundaries.
Shannon Pike
aka Pool Share Auditor
Coding Assistant · Shares
Stratum fairness, share validation, difficulty accounting — pool vardiff never substitutes for consensus bits.
Vesper Kane
aka Vault Security
Coding Assistant · Vault
Shear Vault / Reserve structure — custody, interest/oracle, lock/vote/withdraw paths, invent-must-not-return.
Priya Shade
aka Privacy Auditor
Coding Assistant · Privacy
Holes and gaps in Shear privacy mechanisms and public claims — ADMITv2 amounts, unlinkability, and HUD honesty.
Willow Finch
aka Website Analyst
Coding Assistant · Site
shear.digital suite continuity — links, UX, saas-dark lock, and no suite redesign without Russell GO.
Felix Uxbridge
aka FUX
Coding Assistant · Functionality / UX
End-to-end product usability from miner → pool → wallet → suite — Flow watches and invent/UI-clamp rejects.