David Z
Co-Founder at Billions Network
Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Z is a serial founder and technology leader with eight years in software and a longer track record building cloud and blockchain infrastructure across Europe and Switzerland. He has co-founded and led projects at Polygon Labs, Polygon Hermez, iden3 and Billions Network, specializing in decentralized identity, zk-rollups and trust systems that bridge human identity with accountable AI. As a hands-on CTO and project lead he combines telecoms and cloud engineering roots with executive training (IESE MBA) and technical deep-dives at MIT in Big Data and Cybersecurity. His work focuses on privacy-preserving, scalable architectures for identity and payments on public blockchains, often steering open-source initiatives toward production-grade deployments. Based in Switzerland, he brings both operator experience running data-center and cloud services and a founder’s knack for turning cryptographic research into usable product. An often-overlooked strength is his background in NLP and behavioural skills, which informs pragmatic UX and trust design in complex distributed systems.
8 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Executive MBA MBA, Executive MBA MBA at IESE Business SchoolBig Data, Big Data at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyNeuro-linguistic Programming (NLP/PNL), Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP/PNL) at Institut GestaltUPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Spanish, Catalan, English
Github Skills (14)
circuit8
snarkjs8
network-protocol8
zksnark7
circom7
blockchain5
polynomials5
ethereum5
solidity5
smart-contracts5
zkp5
compiler4
cli4
identity4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
davidsrz/rwot8-barcelona
Feb 2019 - Feb 2019
RWOT8 in Barcelona, Spain (March 2019)
Contributions:2 PRs, 49 pushes in 1 day
barcelonamarch
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