Experts

Derek Yoo is CEO at Purestake, working on Moonbeam Network. Formerly, CPO and CTO at Fuze.

PureStake

Derek Yoo

Leap Wallet

Talisman

Bware Labs

Ceramic

Sachin Mittal is a professional Blockchain technologist with 3 years of experience. He has worked with the "Big Three" of blockchain space, Hyperledger, Ethereum & Consensys.

Given my entrepreneurial and curious nature, I am constantly analysing blockchain based start-up technologies and their success stories (and failures) to improve my technological base, and implement the same in my portfolio projects.

Most recently, I PM'ed 4 projects together in a 2 week virtual hackathon on gitcoin, and won 3 out of 4 bounties and earning follow up contracts with Aave protocol. Also, I am ranked 20th on the gitcoin leaderboard.

Recently, I started another venture, known as DeFiVerse. Which serves the need and build products to spearhead the ecosystem of DeFi.

Currently, acting as Strategic and Operations lead for our Outsourcing team, Trellis Labs.

I has been certified by Consensys for his "Ethereum Development skills".

In 2018, He wore the hat of VP technology for Capovex. Capovex is a blockchain front of a hedgefund worth 100 cr, building Decentralized bank. Led the blockchain and security side of the blockchain. Designed the ICO platform, and POC the blockchain based Decentralized bank

Also, Having prior experience of 12+ hackathons and numerous projects makes him professionally experience with the team management. He has become skilled in project management, algorithms, debugging, coding skills. The most challenging project till date for Sachin has been implementing hybrid-commit reveal scheme and Provably fair algorithm to design a blockchain based incentivized game following Test Driven Development.

Sachin's skill sets include proficiency with:- Programming languages: C++, Java, Javascript, Solidity, etc. Frameworks and Tools: Docker, Kubernetes, React-Redux-Parcel, Web3.0, Truffle, Drizzle, Nodejs, etc.

Minor in cryptography and currently writing a research paper on Bitcoin security.

Sachin Mittal

James Sangalli is Co-Founder and developer at AlphaWallet, the most powerful mobile ethereum wallet. Formerly, Blockchain Developer at Commonwealth Bank.

James Sangalli

Adrian Li is Co-Founder at DFX Finance. Formerly Tech Evangelist at UMA, ex-Truffle ex-ConsenSys frontend tech lead. Building relationships and pushing adoption for Ethereum and the blockchain ecosystem.

Find me in: Tokyo / Hong Kong / Toronto / Vancouver.

Adrian Li

Alexandre Sobolevski is Co-Founder of Chatler. Software, Data, Trekking.

I am a software engineer and I build tools that are robust, enduring and thoughtfully designed. Instead of enforcing a favorite tool, I select the right language, frameworks and libraries for the job at hand. My areas of expertise are web services, data analytics and IOT.

I am based in Montreal, Canada and often work remotly for my clients.

Alexandre Sobolevski

Adrian Irimia is Co-founder of Moonlet, 12+ years’ success leading software product development operations, a blockchain enthusiast.

Your company has weeds that have grown up right along with your business. Left unchecked, they can choke gains as quickly as they’re achieved. I’ve made it my life’s work to find and pull these weeds: identifying the core digital product development problems and creating solutions that eliminate waste and build the foundation for success for years to come.

I have proven success in agile software development, product management, product design, interaction design, web analytics services, or business development for startups and established companies. I possess ability to communicate and capture business requirements, functional specifications and support product development life cycle.

I adept at development habit forming products and designing for behavioural change. I am deft at using blockchain technologies to support organisation to secure systems, increase efficiency and speed of transactions, and reduce overall operational costs.

Few of my key accomplished are given below:

• Founded cryptoland.tech to build a trust-mark within blockchain ecosystem by developing tech community that started experimentation with new technology and helped increasing the value of ecosystem's deliverables.
• Involved in development and improvement of blockchain technology since 2016, as a community model to educate software engineers and product people regarding DLT technologies.
• Organised meetups, workshops, and tackle projects backed by an open source code helped us to bring in Romania several blockchain projects that allowed both community members and blockchain teams to exchange knowledge and build potential partnerships.

Through a combination of data-driven decision making, an ability to understand process deficiencies, and a keen understanding of how people—whether employees, vendors, customers, or partners--impact operations, I offer a track record of multimillion-dollar gains, rapid operational turnarounds, and right-fit infrastructure that grows with the organisation.

Adrian Irimia

Adina Popescu is Founder and CEO at ÆRTH, Sustainability and the Future of Tech, Philosopher, Public Speaker.

I am an entrepreneur, working at the forefront of digitalisation and am combining big data, decentralized protocols and AI in order to build tools that work for humanity.

Adina Popescu

Russell LaCour is Chief Technology Officer at Tantra Labs. He is probably the most grounded person in the office, possibly in all of Los Angeles, and since he is responsible for overseeing all the technology that lets us do what we do, this is a VERY good thing. Although Tantra Labs is building solutions for various sectors of the cryptoverse, from hedging products for miners to gamified saving, our flagship value driver is Russell’s passion and brainchild, Tantra’s proprietary algorithmic development and testing platform.

Russell grew up in Daytona Beach, Florida, an idyllic place filled with spring breakers, NASCAR junkies, and retirees. His summers were spent surfing and playing video games, and when he wasn’t surfing the waves, he surfed the nascent internet in search of a way, “To get rich online.” But while Russell looks back fondly on time spent with family, his days in school left much to be desired. After a particularly uninspiring time in middle school, Russell, like many people, realized that he could learn far more teaching himself online than he could by placing his trust in public education. One of the things he taught himself was Bitcoin. Russell began mining Bitcoin from home in 2011, and to this day, his mother still can’t figure out why her Dell Inspiron Notebook was working so slowly.. But all free electricity has to come to an end. Pressured to get a degree, Russell spent a brief stint in college studying philosophy and music before ultimately dropping out and moving to California in late 2014.

Russell has been developing software since he was 13 years old. He is an experienced full stack developer, iOS/Android mobile app developer, and he has a vast wealth of knowledge in project management, distributed systems architecture, machine learning and quantitative analytics. Growing up, he had two main interests, “Life and technology.” This contrasted sharply with his Christian upbringing, but for Russell, life was never as black and white as he was taught to believe: “The very idea that we wake up here in this reality and have been programmed to see this as the only thing that is real has pervaded my mind since childhood. I would lose sleep at night thinking about time being infinite, being raised Christian the thought of existing for eternity was very troubling to me, and I thought how horrible it would be to live like this forever.”

Nowadays, Russell is far less afraid of the infinite. In fact he revels in it. After a few risky trades and getting burnt out at a start-up, Russell got fed up with who he had become as a person and realized he needed to ground himself. Two books (still his favorites) set him on a new path. These books were “Autobiography of a Yogi” by Parmahansa Yogananda and “Inner Engineering: A Yogi’s Guide to Joy” by Sadhguru. These books didn’t just change Russell’s life. They empowered it, and led to the eventual, perhaps inevitable founding of Tantra Labs.

When Russell finally had the opportunity to meet Sadhguru and tell him where he was in life, Sadhguru replied “Go East; It’s about time you came.” Directly after that conversation, Russell called his fiancé and told her he was booking a one way ticket to India. She was understandably upset, but she gave her blessing. A few months later Russell found himself in an Ashram, both literally and figuratively. There he met his now best friend, who just happened to live 20 minutes away from him back in LA. Upon hearing about Russell’s background and skillset and general lack of enthusiasm for what he was doing, this friend told Russell that he had to meet a man named Pedram Hasid back in LA and hear what Ped was planning, “Something to do with Bitcoins.”

After returning to LA, Russell did indeed meet Ped, and after a few meetings it became obvious that they had to work together. Shortly thereafter, Russell and Ped founded Tantra Labs, with Ped as CEO and Russell, finally able to put his skills to good use, as Chief Technology Officer.

When asked how he feels about how things turned out, Russell says that he has “Never been more excited, humbled, passionate, calm, and thrilled,” in his entire life.

Russell LaCour

Nour Haridy is Blockchain Architect at Mosendo, Fullstack Javascript & Ethereum Smart Contract developer. Experienced Blockchain Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in blockchain startups. Skilled in Blockchain Architecture, Applied Cryptography, Node.js, Solidity Smart Contracts and Vue.js. 

He founded Lamarkaz back in September 2017 as the first blockchain R&D startup in Egypt. Nour organizes co-authored the Dcourt whitepaper, proposing a courtroom-style decentralized dispute resolution infrastructure based on the Ethereum blockchain.

Nour Haridy

Alex Tkachenko is Co-Founder & CEO at Andsub, learned web3/crypto market and practiced Solidity, built several Ethereum and dapps, became ETHOnline finalist with NFT subscription platform.

He is author of hodler.sh, Y Combinator startup school alum. Prev dev at voilaaiartist.