Richard Piacentini
Co-Founder & CTO at CHEQS
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorRichard Piacentini is a veteran technology founder and CTO with over a decade of experience building production-grade systems where reliability and security matter. Based in Bangkok, he co-founded CHEQS to improve crypto payments and architects blockchain-based autonomous payment systems for AI agents, bringing practical fintech and tokenization expertise. His track record spans multiple startups and ventures—founding or leading engineering at companies from digital securities and NFT platforms to DevOps and publishing technologies—demonstrating an ability to move products from prototype to production quickly. He blends hands-on infrastructure and cloud architecture experience with strategic roles in advisory, investment, and public speaking on distributed ledger technologies. Notably, Richard repeatedly takes technical leadership in nascent spaces (A2A/AP2/payment automation for agents), showing a pattern of turning experimental blockchain ideas into commercial products. His background combines entrepreneurial grit, cross-border operations across Europe, the US and Southeast Asia, and a focus on auditable, reliable payment rails.
11 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
French, English, Thai
Github Skills (30)
exception-notification9
redmine9
notification8
ethereum6
flying5
rails5
targeting5
javascript5
sandbox4
solidity4
minecraft4
squid4
typescript4
ruby4
coverage4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Nuxos-Asia/exception_notification-redmine
Oct 2014 - Apr 2017
This gem add a Redmine notifier to Exception Notification.
Contributions:9 commits, 4 pushes, 1 tag in 2 years 6 months
railsrubyexception-notificationnotificationgem
kf106/nb-sandbox-contracts
Sep 2022 - Sep 2022
Smart contracts for a CBDC sandbox
Contributions:20 commits, 5 PRs in 1 day
blockchainsandboxsoliditysmart-contractscbdc
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