Damir Vodenicarevic
CEO at Massa Labs
Greater Paris Metropolitan Region France
Summary
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Top SchoolDamir Vodenicarevic is a founder and CEO with a decade of experience building decentralized systems, fast transaction engines, zero-knowledge proofs and in-house AI training pipelines. He leads Massa Labs—where he transitioned from CTO to CEO—and contributes code to the core of the Massa blockchain, focusing on backend improvements that enhance scalability and reliability. Prior roles include building AI-driven fraud and KYC systems at Treezor and founding a biotech robotics startup, showing a blend of deep research and product-driven engineering. Damir holds advanced training in nanodevices and physics and completed a PhD project applying spintronics to accelerate on-chip machine learning, giving him uncommon hardware-to-software expertise. He now splits his time between Paris and leading Clehance’s open banking innovations, combining startup leadership with hands-on protocol development. Colleagues describe him as a technically rigorous executive who still ships core code in high-stakes distributed systems.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Nanodevices and Nanotechnology, Master’s Degree Nanodevices and Nanotechnology at Université Paris-SaclayMagistère Fundamental physics, Magistère Fundamental physics at Paris-Sud University (Paris XI)Bachelor’s Degree Physics and Chemistry, Bachelor’s Degree Physics and Chemistry at Aix-Marseille UniversityHigh School Major: Physics and Chemistry, High School Major: Physics and Chemistry at Lycée Arthur Rimbaud, IstresCPGE Mathematics and Physics, CPGE Mathematics and Physics at Lycée Thiers, Marseille
English, French, Croatian, Spanish
Github Skills (9)
decentralization10
rust10
distributed-systems10
blockchain10
system-design9
software-design9
sys9
data-structures8
data-structure8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
massalabs/massa
Jul 2021 - Dec 2022
The Decentralized and Scaled Blockchain
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 1892 reviews, 1853 commits in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Damir's commits focus on updating and refining the code base, which includes implementing updates. These changes involved improvements of the blockchain functionalities. The contributions involve code differences in the core structure. The user made changes to the source code of the blockchain by modifying existing code.
dappethereumblockchaindecentralizedblockchain-network
massalabs/riscairo_template
Jul 2024 - Nov 2024
Rust guest template for the riscairo VM
Contributions:1 review, 3 PRs, 18 pushes in 3 months
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