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team
We are a standalone product company created by the Aztec Network's original builders. Our goal is to ship useful privacy products.
We are a global team and headquartered in London.
Joe Andrews
Founder & CEO
BEng Materials Science from Imperial College London. Formerly CTO of Silicon Valley food tech startup Radish. Experienced developer and EF9 Cohort member.
Andre Omietanski
General Counsel
LLM from London School of Economics. Crypto advisor to KYVE Network, Parallel Finance, and other start-ups. 10+ years at White & Case London, ex-Counsel.
Charlie J
CTO
BSc Computer Science. 25+ years software engineering. Former career in gaming and finance sectors. Unix evangelist.
Lisa Cuesta Bunin
COO
Harvard MBA, UPenn Wharton BS. Ex-principal at NextGen Venture Partners, acquired by Brown Advisory. Launched products globally at Google.
Scott Siversen
CFO
Career in finance leadership; ex-CFO at ShapeShift. Earlier leadership roles in 'Big 4', banking, corporate finance organizations. DeFi proponent.
Innokentii Sennovskii
Security Team Lead
MSci in Cybersecurity, National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Moscow. 8 years in practical cybersecurity.
Alex Gherghisan
Software Engineer
MSc in Distributed Systems, U. Bucharest. Full-stack dev, Node.js & Typescript specialist. Ex-Adobe, IOHK.
Alvaro Rodriguez
Software Engineer
Telecommunications engineer, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. 5+ years in Web3, p2p poker at ConsenSys, fullstack & solidity dev.
David Banks
Aztec Team Lead
MSc Computer Engineering, U. Maryland. Experience in EVM game dev, DeFi design, python, embedded systems, and FPGA design.
Grego Juliana
Software Engineer
Telecommunications engineer with +7 years of experience as a full stack developer. Previously worked in the space sector, emergency management and some web3 projects sprinkled on top.
Jan Benes
Software Engineer
MSc in Control Systems & Machine Learning, U. West Bohemia. 4 years in backend engineering on Web3 and Ethereum.
Leila Wang
Aztec Team Lead
BSc in Comp Sci, National Taiwan U. Ex-King & Wood, Senior Engineer at TripNotice.com. Joined Aztec in 2018.
Martin Verzilli
Software Engineer
Univ. Buenos Aires MSc Comp Sci, 20 years in Software Engineering. Previously CTO at Manas.tech and Software Eng at OpenZeppelin.
Maxim Vezenov
Noir Software Engineer
BSc Comp Sci & Business, MSc Comp Sci, Lehigh U. ZKP generation focus. Ex-ChainSafe, Klaviyo.
Mitchell Tracy
Director of Network Engineering
MSc Computer Engineering, University of Maryland - College Park. 10+ years industry experience: cofounded real estate tech company TwnSqr after engineering roles at Hewlett-Packard Enterprise and Northrop Grumman.
Nico Chamo
Software Engineer
MS in Computer Science at University of Buenos Aires. Previously CTO and Co-Founder at Balmy and Software Engineer at Decentraland.
Nicolás Venturo
Aztec Team Lead
BSc in Electronics Engineering, 6+ years in crypto after doing embedded software engineering. Led the Smart Contract team at Balancer Labs, worked at OpenZeppelin before that.
Phil Windle
Aztec Team Lead
MEng in Systems Engineering, Brunel U. Software engineer previously in Aerospace and Financial Services sectors.
Randy Quaye
Information Security Engineer
MSc in Information Security and BEng in Electronic and Computer Engineering. 6+ years in Security mostly in corporate finance within the UK.
Santiago Palladino
Software Engineer
U. Buenos Aires Comp Sci MSc. 18+ yrs coding, 6 in Web3. Council at The Graph, mentor at Zeitgeist. Ex-OpenZeppelin, Manas.tech.
Spyros Psychoyios
Software Engineer
BSc in Comp Sci & AI, U. Edinburgh. 9 years full-stack dev at Apple, Microsoft, Babylon Health, and others.
Amin Sammara
Product Manager
B.Sc. in Statistics from University of Toronto. Co-founded Fuku, a crypto options trading protocol and launched new crypto startups 0-1 at crypto venture studio Diagram Ventures.
Saleel Pichen
Software Engineer
B.Tech in Computer Science Engineering, University of Calicut. Software engineer for 11 years, previously at Ethereum Foundation (PSE).
Bruno Lulinski
Chief of Staff
MBA from U. Pennsylvania, BS/BA in Finance/Economics from U. Florida. Previously COO at Pluto Labs.
Hazbobo
Business Development Associate
Crypto-obsessed. Previously Strategy Associate at LayerZero and Governance and Strategy Associate at Aave Labs.
Justin Harris
Director of Finance
MS in Tax and Accounting. 5+ years in Web3. Formerly with ShapeShift AG and Kraken.
Nicola Ratcliffe
Operations Assistant
New to the Web3 space with 4+ years experience in Fintech Operations.
Simon Ponsford
Finance Administrator
MA in English Literature from University of Cambridge, MA in Musical Performance from Royal Academy of Music, Qualified Bookkeeper and trainee Accountant.
Travis Shimizu
Recruiter
12 years in the Recruiting and HR space. Previous experience at LinkedIn, Dropbox and Robinhood.