Summary
Anton Livaja is a founder and security-first engineering leader with a decade of experience building and hardening high-risk infrastructure for blockchain and crypto-native businesses. As Co-Founder and CEO of Caution he is now focused on verifiable compute, having previously co-founded Distrust to deliver first-principles security and open-source tooling used by industry names. His background spans hands-on full-stack development, founding-team engineering, and managing large security research teams at OpenZeppelin, securing platforms for clients like Compound and Optimism. Anton combines formal thinking—experience with dependently typed languages and category-theory-rooted systems at Statebox—with practical product delivery from early-stage startups to regulated crypto platforms. Based in the Cayman Islands, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with a pragmatic, audit-oriented approach to solving hard trust and verification problems.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, English Language and Literature, General, Bachelor of Arts - BA, English Language and Literature, General at York University
English, Croatian, Russian, Dutch