Ari Rodriguez
Chief Technology Officer at Arrakis
Zug, Zug, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolAri Rodriguez is a cryptographer-turned-CTO and co-founder of Arrakis Finance, bringing eight years of hands-on experience building secure blockchain infrastructure and threshold cryptography systems. Based in Zug, he has driven engineering and research at frontier organizations including Gelato Digital, Faction Cooperative, and OFF-THE-GRID, where he focused on multiparty computation and imagining next-generation cybersecurity. He combines deep academic curiosity—evident from a background teaching math and theater at Columbia and Brown—with practical product instincts for programmable finance. Ari is equally comfortable authoring research-grade cryptographic protocols and shipping production blockchain services, bridging the gap between inventing primitives and operationalizing them. A former educator, he retains a knack for distilling complex ideas for diverse audiences, which informs his leadership and developer advocacy.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Modern Culture and Media, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Modern Culture and Media at Brown UniversityMaster of Fine Arts - MFA, Theatre/Theater, Master of Fine Arts - MFA, Theatre/Theater at Columbia University in the City of New York
French, Spanish
Github Skills (89)
compound10
curve10
truffle10
reward10
solidity9
pagerduty9
web3py9
decentralized-exchange9
uniswap9
nlp8
vault8
sdk8
hashicorp-vault8
modular-arithmetic8
cython8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
kassandraoftroy/ERC721Soulbound
Feb 2022 - Oct 2022
Soulbound extension to the ERC721 standard for non-fungible assets 'bound' to a parent ERC721
Contributions:1 review, 7 commits, 1 PR in 8 months
ethereumerc721fungiblesoulboundassets
kassandraoftroy/btcsignature
Feb 2018 - Mar 2020
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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