Robert Zaremba
Co-Founder at NEAR Protocol
Switzerland
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Top SchoolRobert Zaremba is a Co-Founder and seasoned blockchain and software architect with 11+ years building secure, production-grade systems across FinTech, supply chains and energy marketplaces. He combines early expertise in decentralized ledgers (Cosmos, Ethereum, NEAR, Algorand) with hands-on contributions to flagship open-source projects like go-ethereum, Cosmos SDK and Erigon, and led engineering on layer-1 designs such as Umee. A former Nokia Labs engineer who boosted ad network CTR by 20% through data mining and ML, he now focuses on secure, decentralization-first primitives—recently founding Native to enable bridgeless Bitcoin programmability. He teaches blockchain economics and cryptoeconomics at the University of Geneva, advises startups and standards bodies, and is a repeat conference keynote and community leader in Swiss blockchain circles. Colleagues know him for bridging pragmatic delivery with deep protocol-level engineering and a preference for measurable, metrics-driven product decisions.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
scholarship computer science, scholarship computer science at Universidad de CádizMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of Wroclaw
English, Spanish, Polish, French
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Github Skills (38)
unit-testing10
cosmos-sdk10
algorithms10
protocol-buffers10
testing10
tendermint10
osmosis10
cosmos10
data-structure10
abi10
go10
ethereum10
blockchain10
data-structures10
protobuffer10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
umee-network/umee
May 2022 - Jan 2023
A Golang implementation of the Umee network, a decentralized universal capital facility in the Cosmos ecosystem.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Technical Writer
Back-end Developer & Technical WriterContributions:2 releases, 1195 reviews, 305 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Robert primarily focused on refactoring and improving the Umee network's codebase, specifically regarding the internal structure of the leverage module. Their work involved moving and reorganizing proto files, which involved changes to the data structure and related getter functions. Additionally, the user added documentation to the proto files to clarify signing requirements. The user also implemented typed events and wrote a util package with common checks.
golangcreditcosmos-sdkblockchaindecentralized
cosmos/cosmos-sdk
Sep 2020 - Jan 2023
:chains: A Framework for Building High Value Public Blockchains :sparkles:
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:12 releases, 2265 reviews, 313 commits in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Robert's commits primarily focus on enhancing the Cosmos SDK, specifically improving the handling of evidence types and related functionalities. They've made changes to several modules within the SDK, like the `x/evidence`, demonstrating the ability to work with core aspects of the framework. The contributions include code modifications and refactoring across multiple files, indicating an understanding of the codebase and its internal structures. These modifications appear aimed at cleaning up evidence-related code and potentially improving efficiency.
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