Summary
Aurora Poppyseed is a Senior Developer Relations professional and freelance blockchain engineer with eight years of hands-on experience spanning embedded systems, frontend architecture, and developer experience. She blends an electrical engineering background and low-level prototyping with a modern web3 skill set—shipping developer docs, tutorials, videos, and SDK-friendly tooling to lower the barrier to blockchain adoption. As technical co-founder at Lastic and Senior DevRel at Zama, she focuses on automation and developer workflows, having improved product onboarding at projects like KodaDot and Ajna. Aurora is an active hackathon competitor and ethical hacker with multiple bounties, a penchant for Rust, and a track record of turning complex protocols into approachable learning resources. Outside work she trains for triathlons, solves Rubik’s cubes, and experiments in biohacking—small rituals that mirror her systematic approach to problem solving and community building in Bled’s SubWork coworking ecosystem.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Intermedia/Multimedia, Master's degree Intermedia/Multimedia at University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information Science
BootCamp Blockchain Development, BootCamp Blockchain Development at DappCamp
Bootcamp Blockchain Development, Bootcamp Blockchain Development at Polkadot Blockchain Academy
Bachelor's degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Electrical Engineering
University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics