• Only child born & raised in Thessaloniki, Greece in September 10th 1995.
• Trained intensely on classical & electric guitar for >20 years, heavily influenced by Andrés Segovia, Jimi Hendrix, Rory Gallagher, Stevie Ray Vaughan, B.B. King and Randy Rhoads.
• Studied Electrical & Computer Engineering in Aristotle University of Thessaloniki from 2013 to 2018.
• Addicted video gamer until 2016 (Dota2 4.8K Invoker, League of Legends Diamond 2 Jungle / Support, World of Warcraft 1.8K 2v2 / 3v3 Combat Rogue).
• Studied Japanese for 5 years. My favorite anime are Attack On Titan, Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood and Bleach.
• First line of code outside of university classes written in 2016 after acquiring Hacking, The Art of Exploitation. Spent most of 2016-2017 practicing information security via capture the flag competitions after. Check how I hacked 40 websites in 7 minutes.
• Full-time in crypto since early 2017 as a technical writer, contributed to the first CryptoZombies chapters and made my first baby steps with Typescript and Golang.
• 2017-2020 worked as an independent software engineer across the entire crypto stack using a variety of technologies, while travelling the world with my friends.
• Programming in Rust since 2018, because I was inspired by how it “empowers everyone to build reliable and efficient software”.
• After many friends’ advice (and 2 years of back to back rejections…), decided to not pursue a PhD and focus on industry. Might pursue in the future; TBD.
• Joined Paradigm (learn more) as a Research Partner to invest in the best founders and build the best software in crypto and beyond.
• In 2021 became Paradigm’s CTO, 2024 one of the General Partners and that same year became CEO of Ithaca, to accelerate the crypto frontier. During this time, I’ve led the development of some of the most used open source Rust crypto projects like Reth, Foundry and Alloy with >1K unique open source contributors.
• Since 2023 I have been hosting Frontiers, Paradigm’s annual open source conference for application and infrastructure developers.
• Outside of the workplace, I am training to become a world class DJ. Contact me to mix at your club!