Awa Yin
Director at Heliax
Switzerland
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Top SchoolAwa Yin is a director and seasoned crypto research leader with a decade of experience building privacy-preserving, self-sovereign distributed systems from research to production. As head of a team at Heliax and President of the Anoma Foundation, she steers protocol design and ecosystem sustainability for the Anoma Network while balancing technical direction and organizational strategy. She previously co-founded Metastate and Cryptium Labs, bringing applied cryptography and blockchain attestation services to PoS networks like Tezos and Cosmos. With a background bridging business (ESADE, HEC Montréal) and IT management (Copenhagen Business School), she blends product-minded leadership with deep research instincts—often working at the interface of PLT, cryptography, and scalable verification. Outside of formal roles she publishes technical perspectives on Medium and maintains an active presence shaping cross-project collaboration in the blockchain research community.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree (Exchange), International Business, Bachelor's Degree (Exchange), International Business at Université de Montréal - HEC MontréalMaster’s Degree, IT Management, Master’s Degree, IT Management at Copenhagen Business SchoolBachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Business Administration and Management, General, Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Business Administration and Management, General at ESADE Business School
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Github Skills (68)
p2p10
operating-system10
rust10
erlang10
elixir10
distributed-systems10
interchain10
protocols10
consensus10
reference-implementation10
game-theory10
privacy10
cryptography10
blockchain10
zkp10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
awasunyin/awasunyin
Apr 2018 - Feb 2021
Contributions:2 PRs, 10 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 10 months
awasunyin/ramen-for-ethdenver
Feb 2018 - Feb 2018
Contributions:32 commits, 28 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
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