David Knezić
Founder And CEO at Pocket Bitcoin
Winterthur, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolDavid Knezić is a founder and CEO with 15 years of software engineering experience, currently steering Pocket Bitcoin to make bitcoin and self-custody more accessible and secure for thousands of European customers from a fully licensed, self-funded Swiss base. A longtime bitcoin adopter since 2013, he combined a decade of product and technical leadership at AXA—where he progressed from apprentice to lead frontend engineer and initiated the design.axa.com effort—before launching Pocket Bitcoin in 2020. He blends hands-on engineering with entrepreneurial execution, comfortable across frontend systems, product design, and regulated financial services. Based in Winterthur/Zürich, he leverages formal training in business information technology and IT vocational education to bridge technical and business requirements. Notably, his startup approach prioritizes pragmatic security and self-custody UX in an interdisciplinary team of three, proving that small teams can deliver licensed, customer-facing crypto infrastructure.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Federal VET Diploma IT Specialist, Federal VET Diploma IT Specialist at Berufsbildungsschule WinterthurBachelor’s Degree Business Information Technology, Bachelor’s Degree Business Information Technology at HWZ University of Applied Sciences in Business Administration ZurichCambridge Advanced Certificate English, Cambridge Advanced Certificate English at Converse International School of Languages
German, Croatian, English, French
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
davidknezic/JSF-Forum
Apr 2011 - Jul 2011
Contributions:102 commits in 2 months
davidknezic/bitcoin-trade-guard
Apr 2014 - Aug 2014
Contributions:126 commits in 3 months
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