Summary
Asgeir Sognefest is a CEO and founder with 12 years of hands-on experience building blockchain-first products and developer-facing marketplaces. He leads Kiip.app to simplify digital payments via an embeddable wallet, while advising companies on pragmatic AI and blockchain adoption as Cluda’s strategic technology advisor. His background spans Solidity, EVM security, full-stack systems, data science, and automated trading platforms—skills honed running his own marketplace TradersBit and contributing as a tech lead at dOrg. Comfortable moving between board-level strategy and writing production code, he specializes in turning complex distributed systems into practical, secure products that unlock new revenue for games and marketplaces. Based in Norway, he pairs a master’s in software engineering with a decade of web3 experience dating back to 2013, and a curious side interest in filmmaking that informs his product storytelling.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Software Engineering, Master's Degree, Software Engineering at University of Bergen (UiB)
Filmmaking, Filmmaking at Holtekilen Folkehøgskole
English, Norwegian