Chris Were
Founder at BlueNexusAI
Adelaide, South Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Were is a founder and seasoned technologist with 11 years of professional experience building privacy-first, decentralized data infrastructure and AI-enabled products from Adelaide, Australia. He has repeatedly launched and led startups—most recently Verida, where he served as CEO/CTO and helped secure over US$5M while architecting an open-source self-sovereign database network and DAO. Chris blends hands-on engineering (notably contributing datastore support and schema-driven validation to the Verida SDK) with strategic roles as a fractional CTO and AI R&D lead at Mozzler Australia. His work spans backend systems, data validation, and API integrations, with a long history of incubating and scaling developer-focused platforms. He is passionate about self-sovereignty, user-controlled data and practical AI, pairing product instincts with deep technical ownership. An often-overlooked strength is his track record of turning experimental prototypes into fundable, community-led infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Maths Computer Science, Maths Computer Science at University of Adelaide
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
json-schema10
typescript-types10
database-design9
decentralization8
identity8
blockchain8
web3js8
debugging6
radstudio6
ide6
profiling6
delphi6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
verida/verida-js
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
The Verida SDK provides several SDKs to interact with the Verida Network
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:176 reviews, 44 commits, 173 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Chris implemented new datastore support, including databases and datastores with unit tests. They refactored existing code for database and datastore functionality within the Verida SDK. This involved the creation and validation of JSON schemas, interacting with the underlying database using AJV, and incorporating features like schema path resolution and data validation. The user also worked on supporting external datastores and migrating messaging functionality.
blockchaindecentralizedidentitypersonal-dataprivacy
verida/VIPs
Nov 2022 - Dec 2023
Verida Improvement Proposals
Contributions:23 reviews, 8 PRs, 60 pushes in 1 year 1 month
ethereumproposalsblockchainsolidityimprovement
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