Summary
Alexandre Van De Sande is Director of the ENS Foundation and founder of the Ethereum Name Service, combining leadership in blockchain infrastructure with hands-on product and front-end engineering. Based in Rio de Janeiro, he brings 10 years of experience moving projects from investor-facing concepts and high-end presentations through technical partnerships to execution. Trained in product and graphic design with an international digital design internship in Paris, he uniquely blends UX sensibility with developer pragmatism to ship usable, secure naming systems. His startup background spans consumer and fashion apps — including a photo-style app and an iPhone astrology project that used real NASA data — highlighting an appetite for unconventional products. Known for getting his hands dirty from pitch decks to code, he navigates both strategic leadership and detailed frontend work to bring decentralized identity products to life.
11 years of coding experience