Romain Pellerin
Lead Investor at Herd DAO
Houston, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolRomain Pellerin is a technology leader and founder with 12+ years building mission-critical distributed systems and blockchains, most recently serving as Group CTO at Input Output where he led major Cardano upgrades and the R&D of the privacy-first Midnight protocol. He combines deep academic roots (PhD in distributed systems) with hands-on startup experience founding Slyseed, Ubidreams and Medici, scaling engineering teams and shipping cross-platform products in healthcare, IoT and finance. Romain excels at turning research into production: structuring gated innovation and evidence-based delivery for 300-engineer organizations and extending blockchain infrastructure into regulated, real-world environments. Now based in Houston, he invests in creative blockchain-led entertainment as Lead Investor at Herd DAO, blending music, gaming and NFTs—an example of his proclivity for interdisciplinary, impact-driven projects.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computing : distributed systems, mobility, ubiquitous applications, PhD, Computing : distributed systems, mobility, ubiquitous applications at Télécom SudParisPhD, Computing : distributed systems, mobility, ubiquitous applications, PhD, Computing : distributed systems, mobility, ubiquitous applications at Conservatoire national des arts et métiers - Cnam
English, French, creoles and pidgins, french-based
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Github Skills (83)
bitcoin10
cryptocurrency9
cryptography9
peer-discovery9
requestanimationframe8
p2p8
scrollable8
staging8
phonegap7
golang7
orientdb7
eosio7
virtual-scroll7
scroll7
blueprint7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
eminently/chopsticks
Sep 2018 - Jan 2020
Contributions:128 commits, 108 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
romainPellerin/SilverCalc
Mar 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:16 commits, 10 pushes in 5 days
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