Summary
Adrian Kögl is a co-founder and senior security researcher with eight years of experience at the intersection of blockchain security, AI, and community-building. Trained at TUM and Columbia, he has led high-complexity smart contract audits, built an internal RAG system over 1,200+ audit reports, and scaled security teams and tooling at Quantstamp. He founded Europe’s largest student-led web3 community and now leads Zurich’s first curated non-profit web3 builders’ space, demonstrating a rare mix of technical depth and grassroots ecosystem design. Comfortable in the zero-to-one moment, he combines engineering rigor with psychological insight to build auditable, human-centered systems. A multicultural background spanning Bangkok, Iran, and Germany informs his knack for finding productive collisions between perspectives.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Technical University of Munich
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Columbia University
French, English, Persian, German