Michael Smolenski
Founder (CEO) at Lightstreams.io
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMichael Smolenski is a founder and product-focused technologist with 11 years of experience building blockchain, web3 and fintech platforms across startups and global banks. As Product Technology Lead at NChain and founder of Lightstreams, he blends product strategy with hands-on protocol design for decentralized data sharing and federated systems. His career spans high-stakes engineering roles—solution architect for Westpac payments, work on Goldman Sachs trading systems and upgrades at the London Stock Exchange—bringing enterprise-grade rigor to crypto-native products. He is an Advanced Agile Coach who has driven technical practices (XP/DevOps/BDD/TDD) inside large organisations like Commonwealth Bank, and mentored blockchain teams on commercial deployments such as Innogy’s P2P EV charging. A hackathon winner and competition finalist, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with deep systems and FPGA-trained hardware insight, which informs his pragmatic approach to scalable, secure distributed systems. Based in the UK, he focuses on turning complex regulatory and interoperability challenges into usable product roadmaps for web3 and federated AI.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at University of Canterbury
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Github Skills (61)
mfe9
protractor9
blockchain9
angular8
ethereum8
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microfrontend8
starter-kit8
compilation8
solidity7
vuejs27
typescript-react7
typescript7
explore7
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
autocontracts/permissioned-blocks
Apr 2017 - Apr 2019
Contributions:210 commits, 196 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years
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autocontracts/lightstreams
Jul 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:38 commits, 1 PR, 35 pushes in 2 months
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