Nael Belkacem
Founding Engineer at FINNY
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNael Belkacem is a founding engineer and startup operator with six years of hands-on experience building AI, blockchain, and consumer products across New York and international ecosystems. He has co-founded and led technical teams at YC-backed Panora and now FINNY, while also shipping AI voice agents for healthcare and energy and contributing cryptographic proofs and smart-contract work for Starknet and Ethereum rollups. Comfortable from low-level zk/STARK research to TypeScript/React product builds, Nael pairs rigorous applied-math training from École Polytechnique and Université Paris Cité with entrepreneurial instincts honed at HEC Paris and Y Combinator. He’s taught a best-selling programming course, founded a creative apparel brand, and quietly bridges creative direction with deep technical fluency—a rare mix that helps him translate complex crypto and AI research into user-facing products.
6 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Baccalauréat Scientifique, Baccalauréat Scientifique at Lycee Saint Aspais, MelunSemester Exchange Entrepreneurship, Semester Exchange Entrepreneurship at Singapore Management UniversityApplied Mathematics (M1), Applied Mathematics (M1) at Université Paris CitéEntrepreneurs, Entrepreneurs at HEC ParisSummer 2024, Summer 2024 at Y CombinatorMSc X-HEC Entrepreneurs, MSc X-HEC Entrepreneurs at École Polytechnique
French, English
Github Skills (47)
javascript10
docker10
postgresql10
crm10
typescript10
docker-compose10
prisma10
nestjs10
api10
vitejs10
monorepo10
oauth10
react10
nft8
open-source8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
panoratech/Panora
Sep 2023 - Oct 2024
Open-Sourcing the integration engine our platform runs on
Contributions:45 releases, 2 reviews, 406 PRs in 1 year
apicrmdockerdocker-composegrowth-hacking
ggQuest/ggQuest
Jul 2022 - Oct 2022
ggQuest project - a web3 game reputation protocol @ ETHCC Hackathon 2022
Contributions:32 commits, 8 PRs, 24 pushes in 3 months
2022-hackathonethereumblockchainweb3ethcc
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