Steven Deolus

Security Consultant

San Diego, California, United States12 yrs 4 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Expertise in blockchain and decentralized technologies.
  • Over a decade of legal experience in tech sector.
  • Contributed to leading organizations like Google and Harvard Law.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Web 3 legal expert specializing in blockchain and digital assets.

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Skills

Core Skills

BlockchainPrivacy LawDisruptive Technologies

Other Skills

Data PrivacyPrivacy ComplianceResearch SkillsMicrosoft OfficeGitLegal ResearchPython (Programming Language)FinTechSales ManagementCustomer ServiceProduct ManagementAccount ManagementSocial MediaTrainingLeadership

About

Steven Deolus is a seasoned Web 3 Lawyer at the forefront of the Web 3 revolution, specializing in the convergence of technology and law, particularly in blockchain, decentralized technologies, Crypto, and emerging DeFi protocols. Currently serving as Junior Counsel for the Sui Foundation, Steven brings a wealth of experience in navigating the intricate legal and regulatory landscapes surrounding disruptive technologies and digital assets. As a Web 3 lawyer, Steven provides comprehensive legal guidance to developers and internal stakeholders on a spectrum of critical areas. These include corporate governance, contract negotiation, management of grants and investment partnerships, digital asset treasury management, analysis of US and international digital asset regulations, IP licensing, data privacy compliance, governance, risk management, and the associated legal risks inherent in every stage of the product development lifecycle. Before his current role, Steven accumulated over a decade of hands-on experience in the tech sector, honing his legal acumen with practical industry knowledge. He contributes his expertise to renowned organizations such as Google, GitHub (Microsoft), Harvard Law School's Cyberlaw Clinic, and Fenwick & West. Steven is a licensed attorney in the state of California and holds a Juris Doctor from Brooklyn Law School with a specialty in Intellectual Property, Media, and Information Law.

Experience

12 yrs 4 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 6 mos
Average Tenure
2 yrs 7 mos
Current Experience

Sui foundation

Junior Counsel

Oct 2023Present · 2 yrs 7 mos · California, United States · Remote

  • Sui is a first-of-its-kind decentralized layer 1 blockchain and smart contract platform designed from the ground up to make digital asset ownership fast, private, secure, and accessible to everyone. Sui supports a wide range of applications with unrivaled speed at low cost. Sui is a step-function advancement in blockchain and a platform on which creators and developers can build amazing user-friendly experiences.
  • The Sui Foundation is an independent organization supporting the Sui community and its projects. The Sui Foundation’s mission is to onboard the next billion users to web3 by advancing the global adoption of the Sui blockchain.
Blockchain

Zwillgen

Fellow

Sep 2021Dec 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos · Washington DC-Baltimore Area

Alto litigation, pc

Junior Litigation Associate

Jul 2020Jan 2021 · 6 mos · San Francisco, California, United States

Fenwick & west

Privacy and Cybersecurity (part-time during law school)

Sep 2019May 2020 · 8 mos

  • Fenwick & West is an AM100 and VAULT 100 firm with deep Silicon Valley roots. For more than four decades, the firm has helped some of the world’s most recognized companies become, and remain, market leaders. The firm prides itself on providing legal services to the world's most innovative technology and life sciences companies; while focusing on industries and practice groups like privacy, video game law, autonomous transportation, blockchain, communications, consumer goods and retail, digital health, fintech, hardware, semiconductors, and software.
Disruptive TechnologiesPrivacy LawData PrivacyPrivacy Compliance

Brooklyn law school

BLIP Clinical Student

Aug 2019Apr 2020 · 8 mos · Greater New York City Area

  • The Brooklyn Law Incubator & Policy ("BLIP") Clinic functions as a modern, technology-oriented law firm. Since its inception in 2008, BLIP is training a new generation of lawyers who are well-versed across the spectrum of skills needed to represent emerging tech, Internet, communications, and new media companies.
Disruptive TechnologiesPrivacy LawBlockchainPrivacy ComplianceResearch Skills

Github

Tech Policy Legislative Analyst (Summer Contract)

Jun 2019Aug 2019 · 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • GitHub, a subsidiary of Microsoft, is a web-based hosting service for version control using Git. It is mostly used for computer code. It offers all of the distributed version control and source code management (SCM) functionality of Git as well as adding its own features.
  • It provides access control and several collaboration features such as bug tracking, feature requests, task management, and wikis for every project amongst other things.
GitDisruptive TechnologiesData PrivacyPrivacy Compliance

Littler

Summer Associate

Jun 2018Aug 2018 · 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Littler Mendelson is the largest law firm in the global employment and labor law practice. With more than 1,500 attorneys in 80 offices around the world; and as a member of both the AM100 and VAULT 100 the firm strives to be at the cutting edge of all issues relating to labor law and employment. The firm also serves as a single-source solution provider to the global employer community. Moreover, the firm has been litigating, mediating and negotiating some of the most influential employment law cases and labor contracts on record for over 75 years.
Privacy LawData Privacy

Google

Google Legal Scholar

Jun 2018Jun 2018 · 0 mo · Mountain View California

  • The Google Legal Summer Institute ("LSI") is a unique in-house and law firm program that focuses on the intersection of technology and the law, as well as diversity and inclusion. More specifically, the goal of LSI is to improve access to in-house careers at tech companies by expanding opportunities and removing barriers for underrepresented talent in the legal industry. Google LSI Scholars spend the first portion of the program at Google's Headquarters in California followed by a full summer internship with one of Google's partner law firms around the country. During their time at Google's HQ, Scholars are partnered up with a mentor from Google's legal team. In addition to gaining a mentor, Scholars are exposed to and engage in networking opportunities, panels, and informal talks with tech law leaders from some of the world's top tech companies! In the institute's inaugural year Scholars had the opportunity to connect, meet, and network with leaders from the legal teams of Starbucks, IBM, Netflix, The U.S. Federal Government, and others.
Disruptive Technologies

Berkman klein center for internet & society at harvard university

Clinical Student at Harvard Law School's Cyber Law Clinic

May 2017Aug 2017 · 3 mos · Cambridge, Massachusetts

  • Harvard Law Schools Cyber Law Clinic at The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society provides high-quality, pro-bono legal services to appropriate clients on issues relating to the Internet, technology, and intellectual property. Students enhance their preparation for high-tech practice by working on real-world litigation, counseling, advocacy, and transactional/licensing projects and cases on behalf of clients.
  • The Clinic team has helped Berkman community members through counseling and risk assessment; pre-publication review; public records requests; copyright and trademark advising; drafting of contracts and website terms and policies; policy advocacy; and the like.
Disruptive TechnologiesResearch Skills

Computers in libraries annual conference 2015

Keynote Speaker

Apr 2015Apr 2015 · 0 mo · Washington D.C. Metro Area

  • The annual Computers in Libraries is the largest technology conference & exhibition for librarians and information managers in North America. Computers in Libraries has grown to become the top destination for librarians and info pros focused on technology and its applications in today's libraries.

The new york public library

2 roles

Coordinator

Promoted

Dec 2013Apr 2020 · 6 yrs 4 mos · Greater New York City Area

  • The New York Public Library's Technology Training Program Department (more commonly referred to as NYPL TechConnect) was created to meet an increased demand for technology training and computer education. The program's goal is to help people of all ages learn how to use and develop their skills in computers and technology in order to connect with family and friends, advance their careers, and expand their horizons.
  • TechConnect offers more than 80 technology classes at over 80 branch libraries throughout the Bronx, Manhattan, and Staten Island - all absolutely FREE!
Privacy Compliance

Instructor

Mar 2013Dec 2013 · 9 mos · Greater New York City Area

Microsoft Office

Dell inc. (project owner) - interface computer communications inc. (via metropolitan co inc.)

Field Technician

Sep 2012Mar 2013 · 6 mos

Office of the new york state attorney general

Consumer Frauds Intern/Mediator

Jan 2012May 2012 · 4 mos · Buffalo/Niagara, New York Area

Education

Brooklyn Law School

Doctor of Law (JD)

Jan 2016Jan 2020

University at Buffalo

Political Science

Jan 2008Jan 2012

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