Diogo Mónica
General Partner at Haun Ventures
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolDiogo Mónica is a security-focused technology leader and investor with 15 years of experience building and scaling secure infrastructure for payments, containers, and crypto. As co-founder and Executive Chairman of Anchorage Digital and General Partner at Haun Ventures, he blends operator experience with venture insight across blockchain and security startups. Previously he led platform security at Square—helping enable over $80B in annualized volume—and was the security lead at Docker, contributing to core projects like Moby/SwarmKit and Notary that underpin modern container orchestration and trust. He holds a PhD in Computer Science (network security) and is a published researcher and inventor on secure communications, encrypted hardware, and payments. A sought-after speaker and advisor, he combines deep academic rigor with hands-on open-source contributions to harden distributed systems at scale.
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science - Network Security, PhD Computer Science - Network Security at Instituto Superior Técnico
English, Portuguese, Spanish
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Github Skills (36)
container10
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tls1210
cert10
scripting10
testing10
http10
linux10
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tls1310
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security10
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
moby/swarmkit
Mar 2016 - Jul 2017
A toolkit for orchestrating distributed systems at any scale. It includes primitives for node discovery, raft-based consensus, task scheduling and more.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:276 commits, 105 PRs, 67 pushes in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Diogo Monica's commits focused on enhancing the security features of the `swarmkit` project. Their primary contribution involved adding certificate tests and implementing the initial CA bootstrap for swarm functionality. They also addressed reviewer comments and implemented the addition of a new GetRootCACertificate gRPC endpoint and server-side certificate rotation to improve the security of the cluster.
schedulingconsensuspaxosscalediscovery
notaryproject/notary
Mar 2015 - Aug 2017
Notary is a project that allows anyone to have trust over arbitrary collections of data
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:376 commits, 200 PRs, 288 pushes in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Diogo's commits primarily focused on the implementation of a working server for the notary project, suggesting back-end development responsibilities. This involves the creation of the server, and the implementation of basic functionalities like the main handler. Moreover, changes related to certificate management and TUF-related operations indicate a contribution towards building core functionalities for the notary project.
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