Summary
Vitor Viana is a founder and CTO with 11 years’ experience building backend systems and blockchain-native identity solutions from Lisbon. He founded WalliD, a protocol that embeds government-certified IDs into Ethereum wallets to streamline KYC and instant onboarding, combining smart contracts, encryption and web apps. His background spans Node.js, Redis, RabbitMQ and DynamoDB work at startups and product teams, plus early enterprise .NET and healthcare systems experience. That mix of legacy enterprise and cutting-edge Web3 engineering gives him a practical edge in integrating decentralized identity into real-world business flows. Notably, he has taken a research-to-product path—designing protocol-level smart contract infrastructure while keeping a strong hands-on backend implementation focus.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Iscte - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
Licenciatura em Engenheira Informática Informática, Licenciatura em Engenheira Informática Informática at Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa
ISEL Engenharia Informática e de Computadores, ISEL Engenharia Informática e de Computadores at ISEL - Instituto Superior De Engenharia De Lisboa
Portuguese, English