Elad Verbin
Lead Scientist & Founding Partner at ElectricSQL
Zagreb, Croatia
Summary
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Top SchoolElad Verbin is a lead scientist, founding partner, and investor with nine years of industry experience and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Tel Aviv University. Based in Zagreb, he bridges deep academic research and applied engineering, having held postdoctoral roles at Tsinghua and Aarhus before leading R&D teams and startups. He contributes to open-source blockchain infrastructure—most notably modifying core transaction and database logic in the BigchainDB project—highlighting strengths in databases, algorithms, and transaction processing. As a strategic angel and board observer, he advises and invests across AI and crypto startups (including Zama, iLoF, deepset and ElectricSQL), blending technical due diligence with product strategy. Not obvious from titles: he moves fluidly between hands-on core system design and high-level scientific oversight, making him effective at both shipping robust backend systems and shaping long-term research directions.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Computer Science, Ph.D. Computer Science at Tel Aviv University
English, Hebrew
Github Skills (16)
databases10
rethinkdb10
python10
rethinkdb-go10
blockchain10
database10
api-design9
api9
database-administration9
json8
testing8
sql8
decentralization7
bft-protocols6
mongodb-database5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
bigchaindb/bigchaindb
Aug 2016 - Aug 2016
Meet BigchainDB. The blockchain database.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 5 PRs, 3 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Elad primarily focused on modifying the core logic of the BigchainDB project, as evidenced by changes in `bigchaindb/core.py`. Their work involved modifying database read modes and querying mechanisms within the RethinkDB database. They also addressed transaction handling, including versioning, fulfillment messages, and data validation, making changes across various utility and test files within the codebase. These modifications suggest a focus on the database interaction and transaction processing layers of the blockchain database.
bftpythonbigchaindbblockchaindecentralized
eladve/eladve.github.io
Apr 2018 - Oct 2024
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 7 months
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