Aleksandr Kopnin
CTO CISO at ZERO13
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAleksandr Kopnin is a technology strategist and R&D-focused CTO/CISO with a decade of experience building secure, cloud-native and blockchain-enabled systems for capital markets, digital assets, custody and AML. He has co-founded startups and led innovation at DXC/Luxoft, delivering high-stakes projects from CBDC and e-voting to tier-1 AML platforms and contactless payment systems. Currently he designs decentralized custody, prime brokerage, and analytics/risk engines that combine MPC/HSM cryptography, account abstraction on EVMs and Tendermint consensus for instant settlement. Known for bridging rigorous research and pragmatic engineering, he co-authors technical papers and has repeatedly translated emerging crypto and privacy primitives into production-grade architectures. Based in London, he pairs hands-on protocol and security design with executive leadership across startups and large delivery organizations.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Saint Petersburg State Polytechnical University
Русский, Английский
Github Skills (28)
hyperledger-indy9
decentralized-identity9
corda9
sdk-android9
hyperledger8
fabric8
gerrit7
ssi7
hyperledger-fabric7
rust7
compiler6
blockchain6
mobile5
payment-request5
payment5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
alkopnin/three-fiber-protoplanet
Feb 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:2 pushes in 3 years 1 month
blockbyte-sbhack19/backend
Jun 2019 - Jun 2019
Contributions:21 PRs, 16 pushes, 7 branches in 1 day
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