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Michael Zhu is a research engineer for a16z crypto, writing open-source code in collaboration with the research team and helping portfolio companies on all things smart contract-related. Prior to joining a16z crypto, Michael led protocol development at 0x Labs, architecting smart contracts to facilitate peer-to-peer trading on multiple blockchains. Before that, he was a student at Stanford University, where he received BS and MS degrees in Computer Science.
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Tom Schmidt
Tom Schmidt is a Partner at Dragonfly Capital. Previously, he was a Product at 0x Project, a Product Manager for Ads at Facebook and Instagram, and an Engineer at Apple and Stanford CS.
Guillermo Angeris
Guillermo is a Stanford lifer (BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering). He spends most of his work time in a dark corner of a room, figuring out random math problems for fun. He also loves to work with teams to model many of the weird (and fascinating) incentives in DeFi and beyond. Outside of work, Guillermo likes to cook pizza, hike, and have long, silly conversations with friends over wine.
Rich Heley
Rich Heley is Chief Device Officer at Worldcoin and previously served as Head of Product integrity at Meta, where he was also Director of engineering at Apple. Rich Heley is an experienced engineering and manufacturing leader with extensive experience in consumer electronics and electric vehicles. He graduated from Rennes Institute of Technology and holds a master's degree from Stanford University.
Yuchen J.
Yuchen J. is the co-founder of OpenLayer and previously was a senior software engineer and technical lead at Robinhood. He is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University.
Luke Tchang
Luke Tchang is the co-founder and CEO of Nocturne and was previously a member of the founding team of Nomad. He holds a BA in Computer Science from Stanford University.
Nilmini Rubin
Nilmini Rubin is the Chief Policy Officer of Hedera and has previously served as the Public Policy Manager at Meta. She graduated from Yale University.
Chris Kalani
Chris Kalani is CPO & Co-founder at Phantom, Product designer & entrepreneur living in San Francisco. Formerly, Started and led the Matcha team, Director of Design at 0x. He was the founder and CEO of Wake. He started his career at Jive Software nearly 10 years ago. He later worked for various agencies where he focused on building products for companies like Microsoft and Nike. Before starting Wake, Chris was a designer at Facebook where he worked on the growth and engagement team, graph search and Messenger.
Dennis J.H. Won
Dennis is a Technical Partner at L2 Iterative Ventures. Prior to L2 Iterative, Dennis was one of the founding members of Harmony Protocol. He graduated from Stanford University in the United States.
Kevin Li
Kevin Li is the Co-Founder & CEO at Goldsky. Presively he worked as Engineering Manager at 0x Labs. Before that Kevin Li worked at Facebook and Google.
Avichal Garg
Avichal Garg is an entrepreneur and co-founder of Electric Capital. He was the Director of Product Management at Facebook, where he led the Local product team.