Mentor Reka
Co-Founder & CEO at AVNU
Switzerland
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Top SchoolMentor Reka is a Swiss-born software leader and founder with nine years of experience building developer communities and production-grade crypto infrastructure. As Co-Founder & CEO of AVNU he’s focused on democratizing DeFi by building a high-performance DEX aggregator and liquidity tooling for Starknet, while also supporting ecosystem projects like Starknet‑Ecosystem.com and Kakarot. He combines hands-on backend work—implementing EVM opcodes in a Cairo zkEVM—with frontend internationalization and UX improvements, showing full‑stack fluency across cutting‑edge crypto stacks. Previously he scaled developer communities and product teams at WeJob.ch and held senior engineering and product ownership roles at Kudelski Security. Comfortable moving between low-level protocol details and product strategy, he pairs technical rigor with entrepreneurial drive. An unusual detail: he actively contributes both to zkEVM opcode implementations and multilingual ecosystem dashboards, bridging deep protocol engineering and user-facing accessibility.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Software engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Software engineering at HEIG-VDDiplôme de maturité professionnelle, Diplôme de maturité professionnelle at École Technique - École de Métiers LausanneFederal Certificate Of Capacity Information Technology, Federal Certificate Of Capacity Information Technology at Centre professionnel du Nord vaudois
English, French
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Github Skills (22)
evm10
typescript10
starknet10
nextjs10
cairo-lang10
localization10
front-end-development10
ethereum10
typescript-types10
smart-contracts10
typescripts10
mongodb10
react10
bitwise9
ui-design8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
419Labs/starknet-ecosystem.com
Mar 2022 - Oct 2022
Starknet Ecosystem Dashboard
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:105 reviews, 15 commits, 117 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Mentor introduced a translation system, indicating frontend development work focused on internationalization. The changes include modifications to the header component to add language selection and updating the main page and card project components. They also added multiple language files (French, Turkish, Italian, Chinese, Polish, and Portuguese), showing a focus on the user interface and content localization within the ecosystem dashboard. Further commits introduced UI elements, new categories, and project updates.
reactstarkwareecosystemdashboardecosystem-dashboard
kkrt-labs/kakarot
Oct 2022 - Oct 2022
Kakarot is a zkEVM written in Cairo, leveraging the STARK proof system.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 23 commits, 18 PRs in 11 days
Contributions summary:Mentor primarily contributed to the development of the Kakarot zkEVM, focusing on implementing and integrating new EVM opcodes. Their work involved adding comparison operations (LT, ISZERO), bitwise operations (AND, OR, NOT), and block information opcodes (TIMESTAMP, CHAINID, COINBASE) within the Cairo codebase. The contributions directly expanded the functionality of the zkEVM, enabling support for a wider range of EVM instructions. They also refactored arithmetic tests and added supporting test cases for the implemented opcodes.
layer2cairo-langleveragingethereumzero-knowledge
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