Winfred Mandela
Marketing Lead at dYdX Foundation
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Summary
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Top SchoolWinfred Mandela is a marketing and business development leader with eight years of hands-on experience driving growth for blockchain protocols, validators, and foundations from Dubai. She has led cross-functional marketing, communications, and go-to-market efforts at organizations including EOS Network Foundation, Zcash Foundation, Heliax, and Stakecito Labs, where she grew delegations to 200k+ users and managed $320M+ in assets at peak. A proven grant writer and fundraiser, she secured multimillion-dollar R&D funding and authored successful European Commission applications while serving as CMO at SunContract. Winfred blends technical community engagement with narrative craft—creating developer- and user-focused content, coordinating governance votes as a delegate, and aligning messaging with product teams. She’s mentored 400+ students globally on marketing and entrepreneurship, bringing an educator’s patience to high-stakes industry partnerships and media relations. Outside work she’s a long-distance runner who analyzes financial markets for edge insights and insists on finding the best spa in any city she visits.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Economics, Economics at Carleton UniversityAccounting, Accounting at University of Ottawa
French, English
Github Skills (2)
zcash9
foundation5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
SunContract/suncontract.github.io
Feb 2018 - Nov 2020
SunContract website
Contributions:98 commits, 95 pushes, 3 comments in 2 years 9 months
winniendela/osmosis-frontend
Nov 2023 - Nov 2023
Web interface for Osmosis Zone
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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