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Aztec Labs Team

We are a standalone product company created by the Aztec Network's original builders.

Our goal is to onboard millions of people to blockchain rails by shipping products that utilize the Aztec Network's core feature; privacy.

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A global team distributed in 14 countries

Justin Harris
Justin Harris
Operations
Director of Finance

MS in Tax and Accounting. 5+ years in Web3. Formerly with ShapeShift AG and Kraken.

Nico Chamo
Nico Chamo
Engineering
Software Engineer

MS in Computer Science at University of Buenos Aires. Previously CTO and Co-Founder at Balmy and Software Engineer at Decentraland

Alvaro Rodriguez
Alvaro Rodriguez
Engineering
Software Engineer

Telecommunications engineer, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. 5+ years in Web3, p2p poker at ConsenSys, fullstack & solidity dev.

Maxim Vezenov
Maxim Vezenov
Engineering
Noir Software Engineer

BSc Comp Sci & Business, MSc Comp Sci, Lehigh U. ZKP generation focus. Ex-ChainSafe, Klaviyo.

Jan Benes
Jan Benes
Engineering
Software Engineer

MSc in Control Systems & Machine Learning, U. West Bohemia. 4 years in backend engineering on Web3 and Ethereum.

Maddiaa
Maddiaa
Engineering
Software Engineer

BSc in Comp Sci & Business. Member of Huff team, fellow at Paradigm.

Hazbobo
Hazbobo
Commercial
Business Development Associate

Crypto-obsessed. Previously Startegy Associate at LayerZero and Governance and Strategy Associate at Aave Labs.

Amin Sammara
Amin Sammara
Product
Product Manager

B.Sc. in Statistics from University of Toronto. Amin Co-founded Fuku, a crypto options trading protocol and launched new crypto startups 0-1 at crypto venture studio Diagram Ventures.

Joe Andrews
Joe Andrews
Leadership
President & Co-Founder

BEng Materials Science from Imperial College London. Formerly CTO of Silicon Valley food tech startup Radish. Experienced developer and EF9 Cohort member.

Grego Juliana
Grego Juliana
Engineering
Software Engineer

Telecommunications engineer with +7 years of experience as a full stack developer. Previously worked in the space sector, emergency management and some web3 projects sprinkled on top.

Mitchell Tracy
Mitchell Tracy
Engineering
Director of Network Engineering

MSc Computer Engineering, University of Maryland - College Park. 10+ years industry experience: cofounded real estate tech company TwnSqr after engineering roles at Hewlett-Packard Enterprise and Northrop Grumman.

Phil Windle
Phil Windle
Engineering
Aztec Team Lead

MEng in Systems Engineering, Brunel U. Software engineer previously in Aerospace and Financial Services sectors.

Bruno Lulinski
Bruno Lulinski
Commercial
Chief of Staff

MBA from U. Pennsylvania, BS/BA in Finance/Economics from U. Florida. Previously COO at Pluto Labs.

Simon Ponsford
Simon Ponsford
Operations
Finance Administrator

MA in English Literature from University of Cambridge, MA in Musical Performance from Royal Academy of Music, Qualified Bookkeeper and trainee Accountant.

Alex Gherghisan
Alex Gherghisan
Engineering
Software Engineer

MSc in Distributed Systems, U. Bucharest. Full-stack dev, Node.js & Typescript specialist. Ex-Adobe, IOHK.

Martin Verzilli
Martin Verzilli
Engineering
Software Engineer

Univ. Buenos Aires MSc Comp Sci, 20 years in Software Engineering. Previously CTO at Manas.tech and Software Eng at OpenZeppelin.

Nicolás Venturo
Nicolás Venturo
Engineering
Aztec Team Lead

BSc in Electronics Engineering, 6+ years in crypto after doing embedded software engineering. Led the Smart Contract team at Balancer Labs, worked at OpenZeppelin before that.

Randy Quaye
Randy Quaye
Engineering
Information Security Engineer

MSc in Information Security and BEng in Electronic and Computer Engineering. 6+ years in Security mostly in coporate finance within the UK.

Scott Siversen
Scott Siversen
Leadership
CFO

Career in finance leadership; ex-CFO at ShapeShift. Earlier leadership roles roles in ‘Big 4’, banking, corporate finance organizations. DeFi proponent.

Santiago Palladino
Santiago Palladino
Engineering
Software Engineer

U. Buenos Aires Comp Sci MSc. 18+ yrs coding, 6 in Web3. Council at The Graph, mentor at Zeitgeist. Ex-OpenZeppelin, Manas.tech.

Charlie J
Charlie J
Leadership
CTO

BSc Computer Science. 25+ years software engineering. Former career in gaming and finance sectors. Unix evangelist.

Saleel Pichen
Saleel Pichen
Product
Software Engineer

B.Tech in Computer Science Engineering, University of Calicut. Software engineer for 11 years, previously at Ethereum Foundation (PSE).

Spyros Psychoyios
Spyros Psychoyios
Engineering
Software Engineer

BSc in Comp Sci & AI, U. Edinburgh. 9 years full-stack dev at Apple, Microsoft, Babylon Health, and others.

Leila Wang
Leila Wang
Engineering
Aztec Team Lead

BSc in Comp Sci, National Taiwan U. Ex-King & Wood, Senior Engineer at TripNotice.com. Joined Aztec in 2018.

Travis Shimizu
Travis Shimizu
Operations
Recruiter

12 years in the Recruiting and HR space. Previous experience at LinkedIn, Dropbox and Robinhood.

Lisa Cuesta Bunin
Lisa Cuesta Bunin
Leadership
COO

Harvard MBA, UPenn Wharton BS. Ex-principal at NextGen Venture Partners, acquired by Brown Advisory. Launched products globally at Google.

Andre Omietanski
Andre Omietanski
Leadership
General Counsel

LLM from London School of Economics. Crypto advisor to KYVE Network, Parallel Finance, and other start-ups. 10+ years at White & Case London, ex-Counsel.

Innokentii Sennovskii
Innokentii Sennovskii
Crypto
Security Team Lead

MSci in Cybersecurity, National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Moscow. 8 years in practical cybersecurity.

David Banks
David Banks
Engineering
Aztec Team Lead

MSc Computer Engineering, U. Maryland. Experience in EVM game dev, DeFi design, python, embedded systems, and FPGA design.

Lasse Herskind
Lasse Herskind
Engineering
Aztec Team Lead

MSc Eng, Technical U Denmark. Masters on privacy-preserving e-cash. Ex-Aave Smart Contract team, and Deloitte Denmark NextGen.

Nicola Ratcliffe
Nicola Ratcliffe
Operations
Operations Assistant

New to the Web3 space with 4+ years experience in Fintech Operations.