Tom Brand
Head Of Product at StarkWare
Haifa District, Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Brand is a product leader with 7 years of experience scaling cryptography-forward infrastructure products at StarkWare, now serving as Head of Product. He blends a strong technical foundation—an MS in Computer Science from Technion and a BS in Physics—with a decade of disciplined systems and leadership experience from the IDF Talpiot program. At StarkWare he progressed from Product Manager to Head of Product, driving strategy for zero-knowledge and layer-2 solutions that bridge research and production. Colleagues describe him as comfortable translating deep technical trade-offs into pragmatic roadmaps and measurable business outcomes. Based in Haifa, Tom combines academic rigor with a mission-driven approach to productizing advanced crypto protocols. He has a background that suggests a knack for aligning research-grade engineering with real-world adoption challenges.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Technion - Israel Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science (BS) Physics, Bachelor of Science (BS) Physics at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Hebrew, English
Github Skills (39)
solidity10
computation10
starknet10
cairo10
security10
cairo-lang10
turing-complete10
ethereum10
blockchain10
zkp10
smart-contracts10
julia10
eip9
linux9
wallet9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
bbrandtom/EIPs
May 2019 - Oct 2020
The Ethereum Improvement Proposal repository
Contributions:1 release, 12 pushes, 1 tag in 1 year 5 months
ethereumimprovement-proposalblockchainsoliditysmart-contracts
bbrandtom/HangingMan
Apr 2022 - Apr 2022
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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