Nico Szerman
Founder CEO at Sailing Protocol
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolNico Szerman is a founder and CEO with a decade of experience building the bridge between decentralized finance and traditional finance, currently leading Sailing Protocol to unlock new applications for the ~$4T in crypto. He combines deep technical chops—from Solidity smart contracts and blockchain wallet integrations at Meta to machine learning systems at Facebook and medical imaging research—with product-minded entrepreneurship. A two-time national gold medalist in competitive programming, he brings rigorous algorithmic thinking to performance-critical systems and protocol design. Educated in Data Science Engineering at the University of Michigan, he has a track record of shipping production ML and blockchain features and of accelerating codebases (e.g., 10x improvements in a neuroevolution framework). Nicknamed “The Szerminator,” he blends hands-on engineering with strategic vision for economic infrastructure.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Data Science Engineering, Math, Economics, Physics, 3.91/4.00, Data Science Engineering, Math, Economics, Physics, 3.91/4.00 at University of Michigan College of EngineeringTechnical Bachelor, Information Technology, Technical Bachelor, Information Technology at Technical School ORT
English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian
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Github Skills (141)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
JulioBarrios97/DefiLlama-Adapters
Nov 2023 - May 2024
Contributions:34 pushes, 3 branches in 6 months
nicoszerman/DefiLlama-Adapters
Feb 2024 - Jul 2024
Contributions:3 pushes in 5 months
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