Summary
Helder Vasconcelos is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 14 years of experience designing and shipping high-performance, distributed and real-time systems across finance, telecommunications and web3. He combines deep systems-level expertise in Modern C++, C, Java and asynchronous programming with hands-on experience building blockchain products, EOS smart contracts, Rest and GraphQL APIs, and Kubernetes/Docker infrastructures. As CTO and co-founder at LayerX and former technical lead roles at TAIKAI, Bepro Network and Euronext, he has repeatedly translated token economies and low-latency trading requirements into robust production platforms. He authored a book on asynchronous Android programming, evidencing a long-standing interest in performance tuning, profiling and scalable concurrency patterns. Based in Porto, Portugal, he pairs pragmatic engineering leadership with a developer’s fluency in cryptography, HSM integration and protocol-level design for FinTech and decentralized systems.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Licenciatura Engenharia Electrónica e Telecomunicações, Licenciatura Engenharia Electrónica e Telecomunicações at Universidade de Aveiro
English, Portuguese, Spanish