Matthew Niemerg
Co-Founder, President at Aleph Zero
Inverness, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolMatthew Niemerg is a mathematician-turned-blockchain entrepreneur who co-founded and presides over Aleph Zero, a project that applies decades of distributed-systems research to build a peer-reviewed, leaderless asynchronous BFT protocol. He holds a Ph.D. in mathematics and was a Simons‑Berkeley and IBM HPC fellow who optimized code for top supercomputers before pivoting full-time to blockchain in 2017. Matthew combines deep theoretical expertise (including the first asynchronous distributed key generation protocol for a randomness beacon) with hands-on product and advisory experience across startups and enterprise integrations. He has led research-driven teams developing privacy-preserving smart contracts using MPC and homomorphic techniques, and his testnet performance claims (tens of thousands TPS with sub-second confirmation) reflect a focus on practical scalability. Based in Inverness, Florida, he also runs Cardinal Cryptography and advises multiple DLT projects, blending academic rigor with early-stage investing and technical strategy. An understated detail: his background in numerical algebraic geometry informs algorithmic approaches to consensus and cryptographic protocol design.
4 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Mathematics at Colorado State UniversityBachelor of Arts (BA) Mathematics, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Mathematics at Eastern Illinois University
Latin, German, python, c/c++, java, mathematics, English
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Github Skills (45)
android-client10
linux10
statusbar10
gtk10
wayland10
discord9
flutter-desktop9
mediawiki-extension9
nix9
weather-api9
mls9
fdroid9
android-music-player9
weather9
youtube9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
AlephNought0/Faery
Dec 2023 - Jul 2026
My NixOS flake with the goal to have the most bleeding-edge technology in it.
Contributions:1 PR, 113 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
nixos
AlephNought0/Faeryshell
Apr 2024 - May 2025
Contributions:49 pushes, 3 branches, 2 comments in 1 year 1 month
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