Dor Konforty
Founder at The Awakening Fund
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolDor Konforty is a founder and interdisciplinary technologist with 11 years of experience building decentralized networks and collaborative architectures, currently based in Berkeley. He founded HyperSpace (formerly Synereo) to advance the decentralized internet and now leads The Awakening Fund while serving on the board of Emergence Benefactors. Trained in neuroscience (Ph.D. and MS) and self-taught in programming, he bridges brain research, computational modeling, and product strategy to design human-centered networked systems. His background includes launching crypto and product ventures like Unicoin and Uru, plus a long history teaching meditation, which informs his emphasis on collaborative, mindful architectures. Comfortable moving between research, product, and executive roles, he combines scientific rigor with entrepreneurial grit to tackle social-scale coordination problems. A multilingual thinker with roots in both Tel Aviv and the Bay Area, he often brings cognitive science insights into product and community design.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Neuroscience, Master of Science - MS Neuroscience at Tel Aviv UniversityComputer systems operator Computer Technology/Computer Systems Technology, Computer systems operator Computer Technology/Computer Systems Technology at IDF Computer SchoolComputer simulations neural networks computational neuroscience CogSci electrophysiology, Computer simulations neural networks computational neuroscience CogSci electrophysiology at Universitat Pompeu FabraComputer Programming, Computer Programming at Self taught
English, Hebrew, Spanish
Github Skills (1)
docker1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
synereo/blog.synereo.com
Feb 2015 - May 2016
Synereo blog
Contributions:263 commits, 4 PRs, 263 pushes in 1 year 2 months
synereo/slides
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
Contributions:3 commits, 3 pushes in 1 day
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