Alexandre Poltorak
Legal & Strategy Advisor
Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexandre Poltorak is a Swiss entrepreneur and advisor with over 17 years of experience building secure hosting, embedded hardware/software and crypto-related ventures from Geneva. As co-founder and long-time director of Alsenet SA and an early marketing director at Elphel, he blends deep technical familiarity with electronics and secure infrastructure alongside practical go-to-market and China-facing business development. He has trained hundreds in GNU/Linux and helped shape French-language LPIC exams, showing a commitment to open source education and community building. More recently he advises blockchain projects (Alephium), co-founded a non-custodial bitcoin custody startup (Hodling SA) and contributed to secure voting and translation open-source initiatives. A board member of multiple foundations and a former CTO in photogrammetry, he pairs strategic governance experience with hands-on product development. Outside work he’s a fourth dan in Karate-do and applies martial arts philosophy to leadership and decision-making.
17 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer science, Computer science at Ecole polytechnique fédérale de LausanneINTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL CURRENCIES, 95/100, INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL CURRENCIES, 95/100 at University of Nicosia
French, Russian, English
Github Skills (54)
geometry10
photogrammetry10
hardware-wallet10
structure-from-motion10
qr-code10
3d-reconstruction10
geometry-library9
3d9
computer-vision9
docusaurus8
point-cloud8
terminal-application7
cryptocurrency7
3d-models7
server-side7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
polto/MSc_in_DC_Assignments
Sep 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
polto/specter-diy
Jul 2023 - May 2026
DIY airgapped hardware wallet that uses QR codes for communication with the host
Contributions:2 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 10 months
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