Naol Duga
Founder, Principal Consultant at Synestate
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNaol Duga is a founder and principal consultant with 11 years of experience building foundational infrastructure for the digital economy, specializing in PKI, blockchain networks, and agentic identity. He leads Synestate and has held senior architecture and technology roles at Bank of America and the Ethiopian Securities Exchange, focusing on institutional rails for identity, payments, securities, FX, and trade finance. Naol bridges frontier markets and Wall Street, co-creating ventures and directing investment into digital trust and market infrastructure to enable transformative capital formation. His background blends academic research (PhD work at the University of Amsterdam) and hands-on blockchain architecture from stints at IBM, MadHive, and Loyyal, giving him both theoretical depth and production-grade engineering experience. Based in New York, he quietly leverages deep regional ties in high-growth markets to turn emerging-market regulatory and market gaps into scalable, investable financial infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
University of Amsterdam
Github Skills (8)
virtual-machine8
move7
tendermint6
blockchain6
rust5
hardware4
rust-lang2
compiler2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
xsutD7YBMiZCkgV9uxxJ6Z/movemint
Oct 2019 - Nov 2019
Contributions:8 commits, 5 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 month
rustblockchaintendermintvirtual-machineabci
naolduga/bitcoin
Sep 2019 - Oct 2020
Contributions:3 pushes in 1 year 1 month
stagingcryptocurrencybitcoin-corebitcoin
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