Cristian Strat
Co-Founder, CEO at Runloop
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolCristian Strat is a serial founder and seasoned engineering leader with 15 years building product-driven startups and trading infrastructure, currently CEO of Runloop where he combines DeFi simulation and autonomous agents to surface liquidity and trading opportunities at scale. He led Trading Platform Engineering at Coinbase after Coinbase acquired his prior startup Memo.AI, and earlier co-founded Summify which was acquired by Twitter and became a feature that added millions of monthly active users. Comfortable moving between deep technical work and company-building, he has shipped backend and distributed systems across Python, C++, and cloud platforms and scaled teams in growth and product roles. A former competitive programming community builder and research co-author from Romania, he pairs academic rigor in distributed systems with pragmatism for product-market fit. Notably, his career shows a pattern of creating small, focused products that get rapidly adopted and folded into much larger platforms.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Distributed Systems, Master’s Degree Distributed Systems at University of Bucharest
Github Skills (98)
peer-to-peer10
cryptocurrency10
wallet10
lightning10
bitcoin10
blockchain10
daemon10
javascript9
mmap9
protobuf9
lightning-network9
memory-efficient9
json-parser9
cryptography9
flatbuffers9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
runlp/erigon
Jul 2021 - Dec 2022
Ethereum implementation on the efficiency frontier
Contributions:1 PR, 35 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 4 months
stakingethereumblockchainsolidityquorum
cgst/nn
Apr 2016 - Nov 2019
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
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