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Ryan Shtirmer is Product Owner at Universe.xyz.

Universe

Ryan Shtirmer

EnterDAO

Dr. Christian Reitwiessner is Team Lead at Ethereum, Creator of Solidity - looking for C++ engineers.

Created the smart contract programming language Solidity and worked on the C++ implementation of Ethereum.

Ethereum is a blockchain-based trusted and transparent decentralised computing platform and Solidity is a statically typed programming language that compiles to the bytecode native to the Ethereum Virtual Machine.

Christian Reitwiessner

Peter Smith is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Blockchain, a financial technology and data company that has empowered millions of users across the globe to store and transact digital value quickly and without costly intermediaries. Under his leadership, Blockchain has become the market leader in digital currency and distributed ledger technology. By 2016, Blockchain’s software has powered over 100M transactions around the world.

Peter is a 2016 World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer and noted thought leader in the FinTech space, having been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Bloomberg, Fox Business, TechCrunch, and spoken at conferences around the world including Techcrunch Disrupt, Money 20/20, Web Summit, Collision, Wired Money, among many others.

Prior to co-founding Blockchain, Peter lived, studied, and worked in the US, Europe, MENA, East Africa, and Asia. When he isn’t basking in the glow of a laptop, you can find him either reading or out running, trekking, surfing, and climbing up or skiing down a mountain.

Peter Smith

Raúl Kripalani is tech leading libp2p at Protocol Labs. Engineer: fixer of some things; breaker of many.  Project Management Committee at TheASF. Investor at Bbooster Ventures. Previously: ConsenSys, Red Hat, FuseSource, Atos, freelance. From Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.

Raul Kripalani

Stefan George is a full-stack developer who previously worked for SAP in Palo Alto.  He became interested in Bitcoin in 2013 and began working with Martin Köppelmann on a Bitcoin-related startup for sports betting. After taking a break to complete his Master’s in Computer Science and to travel in Asia, Stefan joined Martin in developing Gnosis on the Ethereum network.  When he is not working with Ethereum, Stefan enjoys playing tennis and squash and likes to travel the world.

Stefan George

Igor Barinov is an award-winning blockchain expert known for pioneering developments in blockchain enabled notary. Igor is currently a project manager of POA Network, a foundation that launched POA Network, which is open, permissioned and public blockchain network based on Ethereum protocol with Proof-of-Authority (PoA) consensus reached by independent, pre-selected validators. Igor devotes all his time to innovating around blockchain scalability and making open networks more affordable for businesses.

Prior to POA Network, the developer and serial entrepreneur co-founded Block Notary, a notary for the digital age built on blockchain technology. Data records produced through Block Notary products can be used as self-authenticating evidence based on State of Vermont’s blockchain application law. He also developed the first Know Your Customer (KYC) application recognized by the state. Concurrently, he built several closed PoA-based networks for various businesses. Insights from these experiences laid a foundation for POA Network project.

Igor holds more than 16 blockchain and computer programming accolades and won blockchain hackathons at the Consensus, Texas Bitcoin Conference, BitHack, and Distributed Trade. He also holds 12 professional certifications in programming and data science as well as deep learning in the design of memory networks, implementation of generative models, design and training segmentation systems and neural translation systems from the University of San Francisco. Igor graduated from Russian State Technological University with a degree in material science, studied computer science at Lomonosov Moscow State University and attended Blockchain University.

Igor Barinov

Professional meme and user experience connoisseur. Core team of the MetaCartel and Wizard of Dapps. Ecosystem strategy, ethereum, dapps, venture, memes, culture, consumer.

Product person working on Internet 3.0 - UX Background with experience in product management and growth. Currently focused on understanding consumer awareness shifts surrounding data ownership and web3-enabled consumer social.

Peter Yuan Pan

Kain Warwick is Founder of Synthetix, CEO at blueshyft.

I run two startups; Synthetix is a synthetic asset platform built on Ethereum and blueshyft is a network of over 1200 retail locations that enable cash transactions for digital services.

Kain Warwick

Aviv Eyal is Co-Founder of Spacemesh, working on a new free open source blockchain OS and a fair cryptocurrency. Actively working on growing the global team.

Entrepreneur and technologist. My passion is building consumer digital products and services that are useful, innovative, easy to use and have a great user experience. I’m a universalist software designer that has a track-record building high-quality full-stack systems, native apps, server and backend stacks all the way from conception, design, project management to production and users growth with small teams and limited resources. I’ve been serving mainly in co-founder/cto roles in innovative startups where I always make hands-on product and technology contributions while also driving the higher-level strategic technology decisions, team building and growth, and IP. I started 2 successful consumer media startups in San Francisco and NY.

Aviv Eyal

Arto Bendiken, Master Toolsmith, Cypherpunk Division. Tech Lead for EVM at NEAR Protocol. Creator of The Unlicense. Hacker, maker, and entrepreneur. Programming since 1993. Creator of the Unlicense. These days working at the curious intersection of smart contracts and drone swarms. Also Conreality Game, Hebron IT Academy, CECG.

Ryan Shtirmer

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