Former Microsoft engineer joins NEO Global Development team in Seattle

The NEO Global Development center in Seattle added Harry Pierson, a veteran Microsoft engineer with 24 years of experience in platform development, to the team.

Pierson will lead the development of the NEO Toolkit and NEO Express projects.

NEO ramping up development in the U.S. NEO, one of the fastest growing smart contract platforms in the world, has been investing heavily in growth in the past few months.

Just days after NEO Global Development announced that it had acquired Liquefy, a Hong Kong-based tokenization platform, the Chinese company announced that it has expanded its global development team in Seattle.

Pierson's 10-year tenure as the lead engineer of the Windows Developer Ecosystem will be what benefits NEO the most.

Appointing Pierson as the chief architect at NGD Seattle is the latest step in NEO's push to bring its blockchain platform to the masses.

"What NEO is trying to do is groundbreaking. The NEO team already has a stellar reputation for supporting its community and developers, but they want to take this a step further and make NEO the best blockchain platform in the world for developers to work on," said Pierson.

Making all languages on NEO compatible with one another will be an invaluable addition to NEO's arsenal, he explained.

"Facebook Libra is building on BFT, which is what we at NEO did 4 years ago."

DeVadoss introduced the NEO Express Node at the Consensus conference in New York last month, saying that its development was part of a bigger plan to make NEO more accessible and available to developers.