Luca Venturini
Founder at Yepa.com
Nassau, Bahamas
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Top SchoolLuca Venturini is a founder and full-stack engineer with 13+ years of professional experience and a long entrepreneurial track record leading Yepa.com and related ventures. Based in Nassau, Bahamas, he blends systems-level engineering roots (Unix/Linux administration and ESA project coordination) with product leadership across fintech and maritime businesses, including a multi-year role as CEO at Bitwage Ireland. A committed cypherpunk and Bitcoin maximalist, Luca focuses on open-source, free-software principles and building permissionless systems that reflect his libertarian and freethinker values. He pairs hands-on technical depth with practical company building—running sailing teams and charter businesses alongside tech ventures—which gives him uncommon operational grit and customer-facing experience. Known for starting early (career roles dating to the mid-1990s) and sustained involvement in Bitcoin ecosystems, he brings both institutional memory and a contrarian, privacy-first perspective to product strategy.
12 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Liceo Scientifico "M. Azzarita"MS/MEng, Electronic & IT Engineering, MS/MEng, Electronic & IT Engineering at Sapienza Università di Roma
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Github Skills (56)
staging10
zcash10
bitcoin10
bitcoin-core10
cryptocurrency10
letter10
cryptography10
decentralized-finance10
p2p10
finance9
decentralization9
blockchain9
ethereum8
foundation8
iterator6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
lucayepa/bitcoin
Feb 2015 - Mar 2019
Bitcoin Core integration/staging tree
Contributions:8 commits, 23 pushes, 14 branches in 4 years 2 months
stagingcryptocurrencybitcoin-corebitcoin
lucayepa/wot
Mar 2023 - Jun 2023
Contributions:39 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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