Track record · Jabari Ennis

Now

Founder & CTO, Flash · 2023 to present

Flash is a regulated Bitcoin and stablecoin payments platform for the Caribbean: a consumer app, merchant tools, and the fiat on- and off-ramps behind them. 6,000+ registered users, merchants across Jamaica and the Cayman Islands, and interoperability with 27,500+ Lightning merchants worldwide, with six-figure USD volume moved through the platform. I architected all of it and built the team that runs it. Twelve people at peak, deliberately rightsized to three contractors working alongside the AI agents I built.

The full platform, end to end: React Native mobile app, GraphQL federation API, Lightning and USDT stablecoin rails, and an ERP-based banking core with automated FX pricing and reconciliation.
A zero-loss migration of customer funds onto stablecoin rails, with staged tooling and dual-ledger reconciliation.
AI-native operations. Container-isolated agents monitor payment flows in production, triage support, and verify deploys. They've caught real defects before customers noticed.
The unglamorous work done properly. AML/KYC controls, recurring security audits, credential rotation, supply-chain gating, and 99.9%+ measured availability.
All of it shipped on a pre-seed budget, with a small team.

Before

What came before Flash

2021 – 2023

Software Engineer · Start9 Labs

Packaged Bitcoin and privacy infrastructure for StartOS, the open-source sovereign-server operating system, running one-click services on hardware you own. 25+ packages across the official, community, and Island Bitcoin registries, including BTCPay Server, Core Lightning, LND, and Nextcloud.

2019 – 2021

Managing Partner · Performatics Group

My own consultancy: Clarizen implementations, PMO transformation, and portfolio governance for enterprise clients.

2007 – 2019

Specialist Master / Manager · Deloitte Consulting

Twelve years leading enterprise architecture, portfolio management, and digital transformation programs for Fortune 500 organizations. Multi-workstream delivery teams, executive stakeholders up to CIO level, and the discipline that comes from shipping inside large regulated companies.

2004 – 2007

Consultant · IBM

Enterprise integration, healthcare data systems, and business-process automation.

Case studies

How the headline claims actually happened

The zero-loss stablecoin cutover. 5,000+ custodial accounts moved to USDT rails, every balance reconciled to the cent.
AI agents running production operations. The platform that lets three contractors run a regulated money business.
A banking back office on an open-source ERP. GL, FX, and settlement without a commercial banking core.
The PMO product that returned $7.5M a year. Clarity PPM inside AT&T Wireless, with a three-practitioner Deloitte team.
Retiring a legacy project management system at JLL. A PPM replacement I led from selection through adoption.

Beyond the day job

Boards, speaking, education

Board member at OpenSats, the 501(c)(3) funding open-source Bitcoin development, and Base58, the Bitcoin protocol engineering school.
Speaker at the Bitcoin Conference 2024 ("Stablecoins vs CBDCs"). Featured on The Investor's Podcast and in Forbes Digital Assets.
M.S. and B.S. in Computer Engineering, University of Miami.
Open-source work and more at bobodread.com.

Working together

Where this experience goes to work

I take on a few fractional CTO and advisory engagements alongside Flash. Usually that means owning the architecture, regulated delivery work, or getting an AI project out of pilot and into production properly. Rates and how the engagements work are on the fractional CTO page.

Twenty-two years of systems people depend on.