Our Story
About Our Team
Exo Technologies is a blockchain research and development firm founded in 2024, specializing in building world-class crypto software with speed, technical precision, and security. The founders have been in the blockchain space for 10 years. They started developing on EVM in 2016 and have been building on Solana since 2020, bringing deep expertise in DeFi, RWA tokenization, SPL Governance, staking infrastructure, and MEV systems.
Exo provides expert engineering services for institutions and ambitious founders, focusing on smart contract development, Ethereum-to-Solana migrations, compliance automation, on-chain permission systems, and backend systems that bring it all together.
The firm also publishes research, hosts a podcast, and operates a Solana validator, working with industry leaders such as Jito and the Solana Foundation.
Leadership
Taylor Johnson
Co-Founder
Taylor is a product architect with a background in high-growth fintech, having joined Blockfolio in 2017, prior to its acquisition by FTX. While at FTX, he was head of Consumer Product overseeing engineering teams contributing to the mobile app and website across multiple jurisdictions. In late 2020, he won the first-ever Solana Hackathon for PsyOptions, a decentralized American-style options platform. After recognizing a lack of infrastructure for launching and managing tokens, he helped build ArmadaFi.
He now leads Exo Tech’s efforts in developing cutting-edge Web3 software, specializing in Token Extensions, the Pinocchio framework, and mobile integration.
Tommy Johnson
Co-Founder
Tommy is a deep-infrastructure engineer who began building on Solana in 2020 with PsyOptions, eventually co-founding ArmadaFi to address the network's liquidity and tokenomics challenges. Drawing on his prior experience as a product lead in the hospitality technology sector, he specializes in building innovative, client-focused solutions at the protocol level.
His technical focus at Exo Tech centers on Merkle Trees, Network Centric Nodes (NCNs), and the Validator stack, providing high-level engineering for the most complex layers of the Solana ecosystem.
Michael Farrell
Head of Growth
Mike Farrell, better known as Dirt, has been deeply embedded in the Solana ecosystem since its early days as both a user and operator. He currently serves as Head of Growth at Exo Technologies, working alongside engineers to grow our brand, lead the GTM, and build trusted relationships across the ecosystem. Previously, he co-founded a Solana-native protocol and spent years as an independent researcher, advisor, and podcast host.