Matej yangwao
Quantitative Research Analyst
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolMatej yangwao is a blockchain-focused founder and investor with 11 years of engineering and community-building experience, currently based in San Francisco. He co-founded Spacecoin to explore DePin validators in low Earth orbit and built KodaDot into a top Polkadot NFT marketplace, shipping nine NFT standards across parachains and pioneering a pay-per-contribution open-source model. Matej combines hands-on product engineering—Typescript, Vue, Rust/WASM, offchain indexers—and developer advocacy with active early-stage investing through funds and multiple seed checks across Web3 infrastructure. He runs experimental projects spanning Earth-observation data layers (StarMesh), on-chain indexers, and tooling that enabled thousands of on-chain bounties and contributor workflows. Known for organizing large community events (KodaCon, Progressbar) and pushing unconventional bets (orbit cryptography, streaming payments), he blends deep technical craft with an appetite for frontier systems. An idiosyncratic maker-investor, he often ships infrastructure that others adopt as foundational primitives in the Polkadot and broader web3 stack.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Information Technology Project Management, Bachelor's degree Information Technology Project Management at Ekonomická univerzita v BratislaveComputer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at SPŠE K. AdleraWar Hero launch of a Molecular Disruption Device, War Hero launch of a Molecular Disruption Device at Command School
Slovak, English, French, Chinese, Czech, Slovenian
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Github Skills (200)
cryptocurrency10
http-client10
opensea10
api10
json10
lighthouse10
substrate10
static-site-generator10
audit10
full-stack10
nodejs10
auditing10
cryptography10
google-play10
vue-framework10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
yangwao/yangwao
Jul 2020 - Jan 2026
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 7 months
yangwao/omf-theme-slavic-cat
Nov 2016 - Aug 2021
oh my fish - theme slavic cat
Contributions:18 commits, 2 PRs, 9 pushes in 4 years 9 months
oh-my-fish
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