Muneeb Ali
Chief Executive Officer
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RockstarMuneeb Ali is a founder and technologist with 12 years of experience building Bitcoin-native infrastructure and developer ecosystems from research to production. He co-created the Stacks project, a Bitcoin layer that brings smart contracts and scalability to Bitcoin, and continues to lead Stacks while incubating applications through Trust Machines. A Princeton PhD with roots in distributed systems and PlanetLab, he blends deep academic rigor with hands-on backend engineering—evident in his contributions to packaging and dependency management for the flagship Stacks repository. He also advises developer tooling at Hiro Systems and previously helped pioneer decentralized naming at Onename, lessons from which shaped Stacks’ design. Based in New York, he combines operator experience as a CEO/Managing Partner with active open-source stewardship of one of Bitcoin’s most prominent Layer-2 ecosystems.
12 years of coding experience
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cryptocurrency9
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Github contributions (5)
stacks-network/stacks
Sep 2015 - Dec 2022
Overview of Bitcoin's Stacks layer.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:166 commits, 53 PRs, 166 pushes in 7 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Muneeb primarily contributed to the packaging and dependency management of the Blockstack project within the Stacks repository. They added, updated, and modified the `setup.py` file, which appears to handle the installation and dependencies for the Blockstack server and command-line interface (CLI). The commits focused on bumping versions, updating dependencies, and including necessary files. Their work directly impacted the project's build process and deployment.
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stacks-archive/atlas
Jul 2014 - Aug 2017
Contributions:3 releases, 191 commits, 170 PRs in 3 years 1 month
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