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Rahul is a San Francisco-based entrepreneur and developer with experience in full-stack JavaScript/TypeScript web development (Node, React, GraphQL, SQL), Ethereum development, and serving as the CTO of Connext. He is a talented and visionary product-focused entrepreneur with a well-rounded skill set, having worked with both small startups and big companies, leading teams and projects as well as individually contributing. Rahul is also interested in cutting-edge technologies such as blockchain, machine learning, AI, and robotics. His achievements include winning the Status.im Global Hackathon for "Most Potential", being the co-founder of TipdOff (which was acquihired by ColorTokens), and being promoted multiple times to team lead at Tesla Motors.
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Henri Mahal
Henri Mahal is the co-founder of Ionic and 0xpragma, as well as an investor and advisor on projects such as Mode Network and Li.Finance.
Layne Haber
Layne is one of the co-founders of Connext, an infrastructure layer that scales the Ethereum blockchain. She has been working in the Ethereum space for two years, primarily on state channels and state channel networks. Before delving into the world of cryptocurrencies, she started a company focused on predicting bipolar episodes based on mobile phone patterns.
Mike Elias
Mike Elias is the Founder at IdeaMarkets. Doing to corporate media what bitcoin does to central banks. Prev Business Development at Global Liquidity.
Mike Cagney
Mike Cagney is a co-founder of Figure, a macro trader, a blockchain enthusiast, a kayak fisherman, a wine enthusiast, and a cyclist. As an entrepreneur and macro economist, I have been fortunate enough to have a career that combines my passion for building companies, particularly in the financial services sector, and my love of markets. If you would like to connect with me, please let me know when and where we first met. If you would like to meet me, there are plenty of people I'm connected to who would be able to facilitate an introduction. My specialties include financial services, hedge funds, blockchain, fintech, macro trading, and entrepreneurialism.
Ake
Ake is the director of developer Experience at Chainstack and was previously the head of project management at SIT Alemira. He is a graduate of Chuvash State University and the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Jason Vranek
Jason Vranek is the co-founder and CTO of Puffer Finance and previously was a research engineer at Chainlink Labs. He is a graduate of the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Joshua Siegel
Joshua Siegel is the Chief Product Officer of Dfns and previously was the Vice President of Product at Ionic. He is a graduate of Brown University and the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
Melissa Horton
Melissa Horton is the COO of GEODNET. She is a graduate of the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Pedro Gomes
Pedro Gomes is the founder of WalletConnect. He is known as "The Wallet Guy" and is a JSON-RPC maximalist. He built WalletConnect Protocol and Web3Modal. Previously, he was a Full Stack Engineer at Connext.
Terence Tsao
Terence Tsao is Ethereum Developer at Prysmatic Labs. Love building decentralized applications, researching & developing new projects to support the ecosystem, and transforming the decentralized world. I have a passion for Ethereum, Cryptoeconomics, blockchain scalability, Web 3.0, P2P and open source contributions. I’m passionate about building decentralized and privacy-preserving technology. My dream is to contribute to the internet’s original promise by dispersing power away from a central authority. As we saw the value of decentralized systems in the first era of the internet, hopefully we’ll get to see it again in the next. Born and raised in Taiwan, I moved to the Bay Area during high school and then studied Computer Science at University of California Santa Cruz. I’ve worked at Fortune 500 companies like Cisco, Riverbed before discovering Ethereum. Early 2018, I discovered the Ethereum Scalability Research and Development Subsidy Program. Wanted to contribute to scalability but didn’t know where to start, luckily I met Raul Jordan and Preston Van Loon and started the company Prysmatic Labs. We are a group of open source contributors working on implementing the core protocol of Ethereum blockchain, we are specialized on implementing cutting-edge research such as distributed networking, proof of stake consensus and sharding. Now days you can find me working on our flagship project, Prysm, a production client for Ethereum 2.0.