Massimo Cairo is a co-founder and CTO with 12 years of engineering experience who blends deep theoretical training—currently finishing a PhD in Mathematics—with hands-on product and startup building. He began coding on an Amiga and progressed through competitive programming success and selective Italian institutions, giving him rare strength in algorithms and systems thinking applied to real products. Massimo has founded and led multiple ventures (DoYouNotes, ViešiejiPirkimai.AI) while freelancing at Toptal and contributing front-end features to notable open Web3 projects like the community-owned Taho wallet. His background spans machine learning roles at Huma/BioBeats and senior engineering positions where he turned research-level thinking into production features. Comfortable across front-end, backend and ML, he’s as likely to refactor UI architecture as design algorithmic solutions informed by theoretical rigor. Colleagues describe him as an entrepreneurial technologist who pairs mathematical depth with pragmatic shipping instinct.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Mathematics at Università di Trento
Diploma di Licenza Informatica, Diploma di Licenza Informatica at Scuola Normale Superiore
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Università di Pisa
Taho, the community owned and operated Web3 wallet.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:82 reviews, 141 commits, 48 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Massimo primarily contributed to the front-end development of the Taho wallet extension. Their work included implementing features within the settings and tab pages of the UI, such as displaying version information and integrating the date of the latest commit. They also added new UI pages for full-tab functionality, including routing and a 404 page. Furthermore, they refactored UI components and added features like a ledger connection and account details within the wallet's UI.
Contributions:152 commits, 117 pushes, 3 branches in 2 months
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Massimo Cairo - Co-Founder & CTO at ViešiejiPirkimai.AI