Yaron Velner
Chief Technology Officer at Relend Labs
Ramla, Center District, Israel
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Top SchoolYaron Velner is a CTO and serial founder with nine years of engineering experience and a PhD in computer science, currently leading Relend Labs while also serving as CEO of B.Protocol. He blends deep academic expertise—formal verification and postdoctoral research—with practical leadership at crypto infrastructure firms like Kyber Network and DeFi-focused backend development (notably contributing TVL adapters for DeFi Pulse). Comfortable at the intersection of research and production, he has built low-level and protocol-aware systems, integrating smart contract interactions and precision numeric handling across lending platforms. Based in Ramla, Israel, he pairs rigorous technical foundations from Tel Aviv University and the Technion with hands-on product delivery in fast-moving blockchain environments.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at TechnionDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at Tel Aviv UniversityHigh school
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
ConcourseOpen/DeFi-Pulse-Adapters
Nov 2020 - Aug 2021
DeFi Pulse Adapters - Official Repository so DeFi projects can keep their metrics up to date on DeFi Pulse
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 4 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Yaron primarily worked on implementing and maintaining the backend logic for retrieving TVL (Total Value Locked) metrics for the B.Protocol project. Their contributions included writing code to interact with smart contracts, defining data structures, and handling different versions of the protocol. They also added logic to handle the initial block and account for different lending platforms like Maker, Compound, and Liquity. The user's work involved the use of BigNumber libraries and interaction with DeFi protocols.
keepblockchainadapterscryptocurrency-exchangespulse
backstop-protocol/vesta
Feb 2022 - Jun 2023
Contributions:9 reviews, 18 PRs, 17 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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