Summary
Dan Brownstein is a software leader with five years of focused experience at StarkWare, now serving as Group Manager for Decentralized Starknet after leading sequencer development and Stark Perpetual teams. With a PhD and MSc in Computer Science from Ben-Gurion University and a background in provers and distributed systems, he blends deep research pedigree with hands-on engineering and team leadership. He has progressed from prover engineer to team lead and now manager within the same cutting-edge zero-knowledge/STARKs organization, showcasing rapid technical growth and domain expertise. Based in Holon, Israel, he brings a rare combination of academic rigor and production experience building scalable, cryptographic infrastructure for rollups and decentralized execution.
5 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev