Miguel Palencia
Co-Founder at Qtum Foundation
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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Top SchoolMiguel Palencia is a blockchain-focused technology leader and founder with eight years of professional experience, currently based in Dubai. He co-founded NOVAXAI and serves in senior operational and technical roles at the Qtum Foundation, having progressed from Project Architect to CIO and now COO, demonstrating deep expertise in decentralized systems and organization scaling. Previously he held technical leadership positions at VeChain, where he influenced early enterprise blockchain architecture and productization. Miguel combines hands-on architecture experience with operational leadership, bridging engineering roadmaps and go-to-market execution in crypto projects. Trained as a systems engineer at Universidad Autónoma del Caribe, he brings a pragmatic, systems-thinking approach to building resilient distributed platforms. Known for navigating both startup formation and foundation governance, he often operates at the intersection of technical design, community coordination, and business operations.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Systems Engineering, Bachelor's degree Systems Engineering at Unversidad Autonoma del Caribe
Github Skills (19)
wallet10
sd-card10
bitcoin10
raspbian10
cryptocurrency10
raspberry10
ethereum10
cryptography10
raspberry-pi-os10
p2p9
git-mirror9
raspberry-pi7
gitbook4
api4
backend4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mikehash/pi-gen
Jul 2019 - Mar 2021
Tool used to create the raspberrypi.org Raspbian images
Contributions:19 PRs, 17 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 8 months
piraspbianraspberry-piraspberrypi
qtumproject/documents
May 2018 - Sep 2022
Contributions:152 commits, 39 PRs, 142 pushes in 4 years 4 months
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