Mikhail Lazarev
Inventor & CTO at SPb BlockChain Community
Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolMikhail Lazarev is an inventor and CTO with around a decade of hands-on experience building web, mobile and blockchain products, currently leading Gearbox Protocol from the Netherlands. He founded and scaled DLTXperts, directed dozens of blockchain projects, and previously launched Tokenstarter, a token-option crowd investing platform. Deeply technical, he has practical expertise across Ethereum, Cosmos SDK/Tendermint, Hyperledger, IPFS, Tezos, Hedera and Bitcoin, and has designed systems that interact with protocols like Uniswap, Curve, ChainLink and The Graph. A systems thinker with an Executive MBA from Aalto and a physics background, he combines rigorous analytical judgment with entrepreneurial drive. Known in the community as an ETH researcher and Gearbox inventor, he prefers mentoring professionals into leaders while shipping market-ready, resilient products.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Lyceum "Physical-Technical High School"Physics, Physics at Saint Petersburg State Polytechnical UniversityMaster of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Executive MBA, with Honors, Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Executive MBA, with Honors at Aalto University Executive Education
Russian, English
Github Skills (75)
tooling10
testing10
contract10
smart-contracts10
cpp10
wallet10
solidity10
sdk10
foundry10
typescript10
solc10
ligolang10
ethereum10
blockchain10
modular9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Gearbox-protocol/liquidator-v2
Aug 2021 - Nov 2022
Contributions:49 commits, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Gearbox-protocol/periphery-v3
Oct 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:3 reviews, 15 PRs, 46 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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