Kevin Corstorphine
Santa Barbara,CA
Summary
Dynamic sales expert with established success in complex technical landscapes, specializing in scaling operations and building strategic partnerships across emerging technology sectors. Proven leader in translating cutting-edge innovation into measurable business outcomes.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Head of DeFi Growth
API3
04.2022 - 04.2025
- Originated and closed 53 DeFi integrations, securing over $1B in TVL across 40 blockchain ecosystems, by providing on-chain pricing data for Borrow/Lend, Derivatives, and Perpetual Future products. Led the Business Development team’s GTM strategy (partnership and integration planning).
- Oversaw due diligence, underwriting, and monitoring of 200+ digital assets
- Co-developed and optimized a product design for API3 to expand market share via an Oracle Extractable Value (MEV orderflow auction solution). This was the first revenue-generating initiative in API3’s history and is now adopted by every major competitor
- Represented API3 at various blockchain-related conferences around the world
- Hosted and participated in panels on various blockchain-related topics
Co-Founder
SaBot
11.2022 - 11.2023
- Developed a machine learning-based strategy to identify the top stablecoins exhibiting frequent, minor peg deviations, and to perform arbitrage against them in high-liquidity ecosystems
- Designed a value for external users to participate in the strategy
- Built a model with 90% accuracy for ‘buy’, ‘sell’, or ‘hold’ signals based on every $0.01 price deviation
- Tooling: Python, Solidity, Pandas, PyViz, APIs, Numpy, SciPy, Random Forests, TensorFlow, Sagemaker, Ganache, Truffle Suite, etc.
West Coast Originations
Fulcrum Lending Corp.
10.2021 - 04.2022
- Built a correspondent network of institutional lenders to process and service loans for a digital lending startup
- Originated ~$10M in new multi-family loans
Senior Loan Officer
The Alison Company
04.2016 - 10.2021
- Originated and brokered over $200M in loans, primarily secured by Commercial and Industrial real estate
- Serviced existing loans and sold loan portfolios to various Life Insurance Company lenders
Agent Associate
Marcus & Millichap
02.2014 - 10.2015
- Originated and closed the sale of two San Francisco apartment buildings (18 units) for ~$9M
- Assisted with various supportive functions for the San Francisco Apartments team
Education
B.A. - English
University of California, Santa Barbara
01.2013
Skills
- Business Development
- Decentralized Finance
- Traditional Finance
- Stablecoins
- Oracles
- Maximum Extractable Value
- Shallow learning, Deep learning, Leveraged ML
- Applied Artificial Intelligence
Certification
- Amazon Web Services - Solutions Architect Associate, Machine Learning Associate, Cloud Practitioner, Foundational AI
- Deep Atlas, San Francisco - Shallow Learning, Deep Learning/ Leveraged ML
- Udemy - Generative AI, LLM Apps and AI Agents
- UC Berkeley - Fintech
- W.P. Carey School of Business - Real Estate Development
Ambassadorships / Advisory
Chainlink Ambassador (2017–2020), Acala/Polkadot Ambassador (2020), Zeru Protocol Advisor (current)
Timeline
Co-Founder
SaBot
11.2022 - 11.2023
Head of DeFi Growth
API3
04.2022 - 04.2025
West Coast Originations
Fulcrum Lending Corp.
10.2021 - 04.2022
Senior Loan Officer
The Alison Company
04.2016 - 10.2021
Agent Associate
Marcus & Millichap
02.2014 - 10.2015
B.A. - English
University of California, Santa Barbara