Demian Brener
Founder & CEO at OpenZeppelin
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolDemian Brener is an industrial engineer turned tech entrepreneur with 11 years in the blockchain and startup ecosystem, best known as the co-founder and CEO of OpenZeppelin, a leading blockchain security and developer tools firm. He has steered the company from early audit services to a market-leading infrastruture security business while advising high-profile blockchain projects and participating in the Endeavor Network. Earlier in his career he pioneered payment-channel implementations such as Streamium and TPL, demonstrating both deep protocol-level understanding and product instincts. His background spans product roles and venture-backed company building across Latin America, including leadership at Despegar and Quasar Builders, giving him rare fluency in both technical security and go-to-market strategy. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he blends academic training in industrial engineering from ITBA and Lund with hands-on cryptographic and security work that’s been cited in mainstream and industry publications. Colleagues describe him as a founder who moves comfortably between rigorous technical detail and high-level strategic leadership.
11 years of coding experience
BSc. & MSc. Industrial Engineering, BSc. & MSc. Industrial Engineering at Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos AiresInternational Baccalaureate (IB Diploma), International Baccalaureate (IB Diploma) at St. Andrew's Scots SchoolMSc. Industrial Engineering, MSc. Industrial Engineering at Lund University
Spanish, English, Portuguese, French
Github Skills (25)
solidity10
evm10
openzeppelin10
contract10
security10
ethereum10
blockchain10
smart-contracts10
payment8
bitcoin7
cryptocurrency6
layer26
plutus6
crypto6
blockstack6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
demibrener/RemoteWorkAR
Jul 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:37 commits, 3 PRs, 36 pushes in 7 months
wikiconuna
TPL-protocol/tpl-website
Mar 2018 - Oct 2018
https://tplprotocol.org/
Contributions:10 PRs, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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