Business Development, Dynasty studios

Alessandro De Carli is the co-founder of Acurast, focused on revolutionizing data management and analytics in the blockchain space. With a background in computer science, he has been instrumental in developing innovative solutions that enhance data accuracy and accessibility for decentralized applications

Events & Operations Specialist @ Polkadot Blockchain Academy

Co-founder of Bitcash Ltd. / Boredtopia

Anya is a key driver in Asia's Web3 and GameFi growth. Her strategic focus on community engagement, KOL partnerships, and impactful events has strengthened brand visibility across Southeast Asia, positioning her as a pivotal force in the digital gaming and Web3 space.

I’m Ayush Mishra, a Blockchain Architect at Cere Network wit years of experience in decentralized solutions, primarily within the Polkadot ecosystem.

Branimir is the founder and CTO of Trace Labs (core developers of OriginTrail) and architect of the OriginTrail Decentralized Knowledge Graph (DKG) and is spearheading the technological advancements in the NeuroWeb blockchain.

Branimir has focused on networking technology throughout his career, working with decentralized networks (including Ethereum and Polkadot), semantic networks, and mobile networks. His work led him and the Trace Labs team to be mentored by Dr. Bob Metcalfe, known for his network effects law. Branimir co-authored all three foundational White Papers that outline OriginTrail technology's response to global challenges. In today's fast-evolving digital world, Branimir and the OriginTrail ecosystem play a crucial role in promoting a more inclusive, transparent, and decentralized AI.

Co-founder @onpopio (Pop CLI + Pop Network)

Bryan Chen is the Co-Founder and CTO of Acala Network, Karura Network, and Laminar Protocol.

Carlo is a Software Engineer who is currently developing Polkadot-API, a meticulously crafted suite of libraries, each designed to be composable, modular, and fundamentally aligned with a "light-client first" philosophy.

Cyrill is a core developer at Parity Technologies, working on compilers and virtual machines. Starting his career in Cyber Security, open source software, hardware, protocols and the collaborative mindset behind the web3 movement were always a huge source of inspiration to him.

Core developer @ Jamixir. Daniel is an accomplished technology innovator, currently building a new blockchain, an implementation of JAM in Elixir. Previously co-founded WEB3DEV, an educational web3 community. His previous roles also include CTO positions at several Brazilian startups such as Pravaler, a fintech aimed at providing affordable student loans, and Elo7, Brazil's most significant artisan marketplace, which was acquired by ETSY in 2021. He was also the founder and CTO of Playax, a big-data driven audience development platform designed for music professionals.

Gavin Wood is a software engineer and blockchain architect famous for co-founding Ethereum, inventing Solidity, and creating Polkadot.

Gustavo is the Open Source Engineering Manager at OpenZeppelin, working on innovative open-source contract libraries and runtime templates in Rust.

CTO, Filecoin (Storacha)

Harold Glenn Minerva is the co-founder of Xode Blockchain and an alumnus of the Polkadot Blockchain Academy, Wave-4, Cyberport, Hong Kong.

Hinson Wong is a dynamic entrepreneur and co-founder of DeltaDeFi and SIDAN Lab, where he focuses on advancing decentralized finance solutions and innovative blockchain technologies. As a key contributor to MeshJS, a Cardano SDK for decentralized application development, Hinson plays a pivotal role in enabling developers to build on the Cardano ecosystem.

CTO @ Intergalactic / Hydration

CEO and Founder of LFG Inc

Jay Chrawnna is director of The Kus, host of AAG (Attempts at Governance & the in-person Space Monkeys Podcast featuring the brightest minds & Builders from the PolkadotDAO.

John Linden is the CEO of Mythical Games, a game company focused on building player-owned economies with top game developers and publishers in addition to own own portfolio of games (Blankos, NFL Rivals, Nitro Nation, Pudgy Penguins coming soon). Prior to Mythical Games, John was the President of Seismic Games (acquired by Niantic Labs), developer of Marvel Strike Force and Magic the Gathering: Valor’s Reach). Prior to Seismic Games, he was a Studio Head at Activision Blizzard on the Call of Duty and Skylanders franchises.

Justin is a Senior Software developer at Midnight, where he focuses on building the Midnight node. He has worked on Substrate-based projects for three years, some of which he spent at Parity Technologies, and Futureverse. In his spare time, he likes learning about an exciting new topic in Web3: ZKVMs.

CEO & Engineering manager @ KAGOME

Kamil was one of the original developers of Hyperledger Iroha – private ledger platform with orientation on mobile devices and web applications. He holds technical degrees from both Kazan National Research Technical University and Innopolis University. Currently Kamil and his team are working on KAGOME – C++ implementation of Polkadot and maintaining cpp-libp2p library

Kian spent his entire teenage years dreaming of becoming a civil engineer, only to realize that his grades were not good enough to get into any of the top universities of his hometown Tehran (Iran) in civil engineering, so he settled for the next best thing at the time: Software Engineering. And in his words "oh boy, I am grateful for this twist of destiny".

In 2017, he left Iran for a brighter future and to do a Master's degree in Amsterdam on Parallel and Distributed Computer Systems. In the middle of this degree, he started to get interested in blockchains as a novel form of distributed systems. Soon after, he joined Parity Technologies to work on Substrate, and later on Polkadot. His interest in this field has only ever increased since then. He's currently an Engineering Lead at Parity Technologies, a member of the Polkadot fellowship and working on "GrayMatter", as a JAM implementation team member.

Principal Solutions Architect at Energy Web. With over six years in blockchain and software architecture, including work with MIMOS Berhad to preserve Malaysia’s national heritage, Kim brings extensive expertise in designing impactful, tech-driven solutions.

Senior Blockchain Engineer currently employed at BlockDeep, with a strong focus on the Polkadot ecosystem for the past four years. A dedicated and enthusiastic professional in the field of blockchain technology, he combines his engineering expertise with a deep passion for cryptocurrencies. Always eager to engage in discussions about the crypto world, he also enjoys sharing his knowledge through tech blog writing. His commitment to the industry extends to contributing to various open-source projects, further demonstrating his active involvement in the blockchain community.

Chief Nice Officer at Novasama Technologies

Head of BD & Devrel, SubQuery Network

CEO & Founder of PINK Games.

Mexy is the Product Lead at Crust Network.

Chief of Staff - Star Atlas

Application Security Engineer, Parity Technologies

Pauline Cohen Vorms is an experienced Education leader in the consumer and enterprise space. With a background in in-person and online education at Holberton Schools and at Coursera, Pauline now drives the training of future Blockchain leaders and Core developers as co founder and CEO of the Polkadot Blockchain Academy.

Peter White is a Co-founder and Developer at r0gue and Pop. With a strong background in blockchain technology and software development, Peter is passionate about creating innovative solutions that enhance interoperability across different blockchain platforms.

Prabal Banerjee is the co-founder of Avail, a web3 infrastructure layer designed to allow modular execution layers to scale and interoperate in a trust-minimized way. With a Ph.D. in theoretical computer science and cryptography, he focuses on blockchain-based security solutions which has laid the groundwork for his role at the company. Before Avail, Prabal was a Lead researcher at Polygon, developing blockchain scalability solutions. His work at Avail is crucial in creating a secure and scalable infrastructure for trustless applications, enhancing the blockchain development ecosystem.

Qinwen is founder of Lollipop, the First Solana Native Network Extension Services leveraging Polkadot. She was in the Polkadot Launch team for 4 years at the Web3 Foundation and a Polkadot Network Councilor. She's also the Producer of “Virtual Niche” the World's first Crypto Art NFT Museum Exhibition which later led to the Curator and lecturer for Christie and Sotheby's auction. Her contributions to the Web3 space have also earned her a spot on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2021.

Radha is the Technical Education Lead at Web3 Foundation and works on scaling Blockchain and Polkadot education. Before joining, he was a faculty at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Vermont and has an MS and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. Radha is excited to use his skills to educate professionals and the general public about the vision of Web3, Polkadot, and its technology stack!

Robert Habermeier is a co-founder of Polkadot and a key contributor to its development, particularly in consensus and parachain technology. With a background in cryptography and distributed systems, he has been instrumental in building Polkadot's scalable, interoperable framework. A member of the Rust community, Rob also co-founded Hypersphere Ventures, supporting projects that advance the Web3 ecosystem

Full Stack Engineer at Substrate Connect

Sacha has worked on various initiatives building the Polkadot developer community since the early days of Polkadot. Previously a Developer Relations Engineer at Parity Technologies, he's contributed to developer educational material including Substrate documentation, guides, streaming and the core curriculum of the Polkadot Blockchain Academy. He now leads all Developer Relations activities at WebZero, with a passion for bringing together developers from all walks of web3.

Sergei is a Software Architect at Robonomics (https://robonomics.network/). In the past, he worked in R&D on: Bitcoin/Altcoin/cryptocurrency projects since 2011 and Smart contract/Ethereum platform projects since 2014.

Since September 2015 Sergei has been researching and developing on frontier between blockchain. robotics and Decentralized Autonomous Organizations. Since then, he has been working on experiments around blockchain-based communication for multi-agent systems like a sensors networks in smart cities, autonomous mobile robotics and smart factories in Industry 4.0.

Shawn was born and raised in the heart of the Bay area, a breeding pool of technology and innovation. He first started programming at the age of 13, trying to learn how to hack his PlayStation Portable so that he could play games for free. Through the PSP hacking community, he learned about the vast potential surrounding computers, programming, and the internet.

Before joining Parity Technologies as Lead Developer, he was working at Microsoft on Microsoft Azure. At his time at Parity, he contributed to the launch of Polkadot and continued to work on the development of the Polkadot SDK. He now works independently as a Polkadot Fellow, contributing to and creating open source software for the decentralized web.

Head of Ecosystem, Emurgo
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Sourav is a Core Protocol Engineer at MetaMUI with nearly three years of experience in blockchain technology. He has actively contributed to Polkadot tooling through open-source projects, focusing on Rust for building decentralized applications and backend systems. A graduate of the Polkadot Blockchain Academy, Sourav’s work centers on protocol development and driving innovation at Sovereign Wallet Network.

Creator of Dedot & Typink. Building for a trustless future!

Dedot: https://dedot.dev
Typink: https://github.com/dedotdev/typink

Developer @Chainsafe
Thibaut has been building products for more than 6 years in the Polkadot ecosystem. Previously working for Parity, he was the creator or maintainer of some of the most used applications out there such as Polkadot-js extension, Polkassembly or Polkadot Vault.
Later part of Chainsafe, Thibaut has created and maintained Multix: an interface to manage multisigs, and Delegit.xyz (together with Nikos) an interface to delegate on Polkadot and Kusama OpenGov.

DevRel Lead at OpenGuild Community

Head of Engineer Department - Robonomics

14+ years Software Engineer with diverse experience in Frontend, Fullstack, 3D, and blockchain. Love smooth UIs with clear infographics and mind-blowing 3D effects. As an active community member, I've organised meetups, conferences and currently co-organizing LuxembourgJS events. Recognised as a Google Developer Expert, I've also taught at various web schools. Beyond tech, I'm passionate about travelling, diving, gaming, cinema, and animals.

Vasilis is product owner at Galaniprojects and currently leads the Bounty Manager project. 

Galaniprojects has 20 years of experience offering IT services across industries in the automotive, publishing, juristical and public sectors. We have worked as integrators for the KILT protocol and are now moving into developing projects in the Polkadot ecosystem.

Head of DevRel at Celestia Labs. One of the founding engineers. Lazybridging is a lifestyle.

WebZero is a global devrel and event force, building developer communities across the decentralized web.

Will is a web hacker, focused on making the web better - by building technical systems to make progress on the interwoven access, privacy, cultural, and security problems that exist today.

He's worked as a software engineer at Google on Gmail, Google+, and Google ideas. Will completed grad school at the University of Washington in 2016, with projects measuring and addressing online censorship. He has worked and studied in China and taught computer science in North Korea.

He currently holds a position as Research Engineer at Protocol Labs working on IPFS.

Co-Founder WebZero

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