Summary
Eduardo Elvira is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 18 years of experience building open-source, security-focused voting systems and advanced software solutions. Currently leading Sequent, he spearheads the world’s first open-source, end-to-end verifiable online voting platform and also serves as CEO of nVotes Online Voting, blending product vision with hands-on engineering. A specialist in free software and languages like C++, Python, and Java, he brings deep practical experience from early KDE contributions to commercial open-source ventures. His background as a co-founder at wadobo and long-standing involvement in e-voting demonstrate a rare mix of entrepreneurial drive and domain expertise in transparency and auditability. Based in Madrid, he applies rigorous engineering practices to make complex cryptographic and distributed systems usable for public and private elections. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who translates research-grade security into production-ready, community-driven software.
18 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
University of Seville
Spanish, English