Ben Gervais
Independent Technology Consultant at Yield Network
Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Gervais is an independent technology consultant and R&D-focused systems architect with nearly two decades of experience building AI, blockchain, and full-stack products across startups and decentralized finance. He has led technical pivots as CTO, shipped multi-chain DeFi dashboards supporting 5,000+ assets, and driven decentralized identity and smart-contract work as Head of R&D at SelfKey. Equally comfortable in Node.js, Python, Rust and Solidity, Ben bridges research and product delivery—prototyping ML pipelines, custom GPU rigs, LLM-driven automation, and large-scale data systems. A polyglot who lived half his life in the Asia-Pacific and speaks Mandarin and French, he brings global perspective to technical strategy and go-to-market decisions. Beyond code, he has musical and audio-engineering chops and served as an Army Reservist, reflecting a blend of creativity, discipline and systems thinking that fuels his work on ambitious projects like AI-powered decentralized research.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Audio Production And Engineering, Audio Production And Engineering at Harris Institute
English, French, Chinese
Github Skills (35)
ethereum-wallet10
identity9
wallet9
ethereum9
staking9
mongodb9
cryptocurrency9
decentralized-finance8
modeling8
odm8
nodejs8
asynchronous7
blockchain7
orm7
log-in6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
KEYFIAI/KIPS
Dec 2020 - May 2022
Contributions:18 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
SelfKeyFoundation/selfkey-extension
Aug 2018 - May 2019
SelfKey Extension
Contributions:31 commits, 4 PRs, 12 pushes in 9 months
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