Carlos Faria
Chief Technology Officer at Yacooba Labs
Santana, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolCarlos Faria is a CTO and co-founder with 11 years of experience building blockchain and crypto-native systems, currently leading engineering at Yacooba Labs. He holds an MS in Computer Science from Instituto Superior Técnico with specialisation in Distributed Systems and Cybersecurity, and contributed academic research by implementing BlockSim, a discrete-event blockchain simulator presented at IEEE Blockchain 2019. Carlos has a strong track record founding and shipping products across the Ethereum and Bitcoin ecosystems, from multi-signature broker wallets to NFT-enabled ticketing and privacy-focused prototypes like Privata.ai. He blends hands-on protocol-level engineering with product leadership, having won industry awards with Blockbird Ventures and driven integrations between research and commercial teams. Based in Santana, Portugal, he also founded a community initiative to demystify Bitcoin for non-technical users, showing a pragmatic commitment to adoption as well as innovation.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science and Engineering at Universidade da MadeiraMaster of Science (MS), Cybersecurity and Distributed Systems, Master of Science (MS), Cybersecurity and Distributed Systems at Instituto Superior Técnico
Github Skills (149)
bitcore10
monorepo10
cli10
angular10
typescript10
build-system10
nodejs10
cypress10
angular-cli10
react10
ai-agent9
javascript9
solidity9
aws-amplify9
discrete-event-simulation9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
Yacooba/vercel-action
Nov 2021 - Sep 2025
This action make a deployment with github actions instead of Vercel builder.
Contributions:2 releases, 2 pushes, 1 tag in 3 years 10 months
deploymentnextjsvercelbuilder
carlosfaria94/carlosfaria.com
Apr 2016 - Apr 2020
My personal website. Yes, I have one too 🙃
Contributions:2 PRs, 59 pushes, 6 branches in 4 years
nextjsyes
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