Summary
Maxim Gaina is a pragmatic technology leader and founder with nine years of experience architecting and delivering Web3, FinTech, LawTech, and XR products from concept to production. As a serial CTO and co‑founder, he combines academic depth in blockchain protocols and NLP with hands‑on execution across tokenization, open banking, smart legal contracts, and AI automation. He excels at making strategic tech-stack choices that align with business constraints, overseeing outsourced builds, and enforcing security and compliance standards such as GDPR and ISO. Notable work includes founding monAI Finance and leading onchain art drops with novel decentralized reveal mechanics, plus early experiments in food traceability and NFT collectibles before mainstream adoption. Comfortable across paradigms and languages, he pairs feasibility studies and architecture design with practical deployment and quality control. Based in Milan, he brings a rare mix of research-driven thinking and operator grit, having run independent CTO engagements since 2017.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Laurea Magistrale LM, Scienze informatiche, Laurea Magistrale LM, Scienze informatiche at Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna
Laurea triennale in Scienze e Tecnologie Informatiche, Scienze informatiche, Laurea triennale in Scienze e Tecnologie Informatiche, Scienze informatiche at Università degli Studi di Parma
English, Italian, Russian, moldavian