Zacharias Mitzelos
Co-Founder And CTO at Lucid Labs
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolZacharias Mitzelos is a software engineering leader and co-founder based in Zurich with 11 years of experience building secure, scalable financial systems and decentralized finance (DeFi) products. As CTO of Lucid Labs and former Blockchain Engineering Lead at Verum Capital, he has architected and shipped Ethereum smart contracts for institutional-grade DeFi use cases including decentralized exchanges, structured product tokenization, impermanent loss protection, and NFT marketplaces. He combines deep hands-on smart contract development with product-facing stakeholder engagement, driving 100% company growth in 2022 through pioneering solutions. Zacharias holds advanced training from the Apple Developer Academy and an MSc in Finance, Technology & Policy from the University of Edinburgh, blending rigorous engineering with finance-savvy design. Early career work on scalable microservices and integrations at Workable underscores his full-stack fluency and operational mindset. He brings an entrepreneurial streak to technical leadership, preferring pragmatic, auditable designs that bridge finance and cryptoeconomics.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Finance Technology & Policy, Master of Science - MS Finance Technology & Policy at The University of EdinburghMaster of Engineering - MEng & BEng Department of Information & Communication Systems Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng & BEng Department of Information & Communication Systems Engineering at University of the Aegean
English, Greek, German
Github Skills (31)
inventory-management8
adapter7
ruby-on-rails7
ethereum6
blockchain6
rails6
chain6
ruby6
bsc6
interoperability6
activemodel5
trust5
polygon5
evm5
solidity5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
zmitzie/coming-soon-mpfamily
Sep 2020 - Oct 2021
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
nely-surance/nely-surance.github.io
May 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch in 22 days
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