Chris Catoya

Chris Catoya is a San Francisco-based technologist and entrepreneur in open-source complex systems modeling, serving as Executive Director of The cadCAD Foundation—the nonprofit stewarding cadCAD, a Python-based open-source framework for designing, simulating, validating, and operating complex adaptive systems through differential games, Monte Carlo analyses, and parameter sweeping, adopted in token engineering, decentralized governance, and web3 mechanism design. With a background spanning mobile gaming, fintech, crypto, VR, medtech, and structured finance (CRE CMBS & CDOs), Catoya previously held roles as Program Manager and Product Manager at BlockScience—where cadCAD originated—before co-founding and advising DNS.xyz, a decentralized naming and social platform empowering creators with on-chain identities and websites. An advocate for scaling self-improving processes, automation across network layers, and shaping web3+ ecosystems, he bridges systems thinking with innovation to enable transparent, verifiable modeling for a collaborative digital future.