Alex Males
Co-Founder at ETHCluj
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Males is a systems engineer, architect, and serial founder with eight years focused on permissionless blockchain networks, smart contracts, and decentralized infrastructure. Based in Cluj-Napoca, he co-founded ETHCluj and organizes the regional Ethereum conference while also building protocol- and application-level projects across Ethereum and Bitcoin ecosystems. His background blends enterprise-grade Java/Scala systems and distributed architectures with hands-on DeFi, smart contract, and infrastructure work, and he has a track record of winning multiple hackathons. Comfortable leading technical teams and community initiatives, he favors trust-minimized, censorship-resistant designs that shift power to users. Notably, he moved from traditional backend and microservices roles into founding protocol-focused startups and grassroots developer education, bridging deep systems experience with community building.
8 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai din Cluj-Napoca
English, Romanian, Russian
Github Skills (35)
ethereum10
blockchain10
react10
chakra-ui10
plugin9
nextjs9
payment-gateway9
typescript9
gatsby9
payment9
hyperledger8
verification8
gateway7
api7
hyperledger-fabric7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
payperws/payper-gateway
Oct 2018 - May 2019
API Routing Gateway with micro-payment verification
Contributions:142 commits, 9 PRs, 20 pushes in 7 months
apipayment-gatewayroutinggatewaypayment
dappcoder/hashgraph4orderer
Jun 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:16 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 23 days
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