Bedeho Mender
Founder, CEO at Jsgenesis
Norway
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Top SchoolBedeho Mender is the founder and CEO of Jsgenesis, leading the development of the decentralized media platform Joystream with over 11 years of professional experience. He combines deep theoretical grounding—holding a Master’s in Theoretical Computer Science and pursuing a DPhil in Computational Neuroscience—with hands-on product leadership in blockchain and open media. Based in Norway, he blends research-grade rigor with startup agility to tackle governance, distributed systems, and community-driven platform design. His background suggests a rare ability to translate formal models into practical, user-facing infrastructure for content networks. Active in the Joystream project on GitHub, he focuses on building open, interoperable systems rather than proprietary silos. Colleagues describe him as an academic-minded entrepreneur who prefers building long-term, protocol-level solutions over short-term feature hacks.
11 years of coding experience
University of OsloDPhil, Computational Neuroscience, DPhil, Computational Neuroscience at University of Oxford
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Github Skills (18)
substrate10
data-structure10
blockchain10
data-structures10
rust10
event-sourcing9
event-emitter9
eventing9
eventsource9
encoding8
decode8
decoding8
encode8
typescripts6
clang6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Joystream/whitepaper
Feb 2019 - Feb 2021
Joystream Whitepaper
Contributions:9 PRs, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
joystream
Joystream/handbook
Feb 2020 - Feb 2022
The Joystream Handbook
Contributions:19 reviews, 52 PRs, 42 pushes in 2 years
joystream
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