The Clearmatics Team

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Samir is passionate about exploring national parks in North America, reading, and mentoring young entrepreneurs.

Florian has managed large-scale education research programmes in Nigeria and Sierra Leone, built nearly the entire IT infrastructure for a small bank in Vienna and created the IT security framework for a large government department. At Clearmatics, Florian helped design and specify the Autonity platform for distributed economic automata, and now serves as the company's Chief of Staff. He collects vintage computers, with a focus on 1980s and 1990s graphics workstations. Florian also spent many years as a youth leader in the Scouts, and within the United World Colleges movement.

Aiman is the Head of Engineering at Clearmatics. He brings almost two decades experience in software development across financial market systems, quality assurance, and blockchain technologies.

Tim Swanson is Head of Partnerships at Clearmatics.

He previously worked in East Asia for more than six years and was a visiting research fellow in Singapore. He is is currently based in the US. He is the author of three books and is also the Founder and Director of Research at Post Oak Labs.

Jay is an architect in the engineering team, where he focuses on analysis and design of protocol and platform architectures for decentralised peer-to-peer networks. He has previously worked as a systems architect across sectors from software to financial services. He is an LSE alumnus

Youssef is leading the Autonity client development, at the intersection of cryptography, peer-to-peer systems and economics. Youssef enjoys the challenge to work on complex distributed systems and doing applied research. He holds a master degree in electronic engineering from ENSEEIHT (France) and studied AI at EPFL (Switzerland).

Hi, I'm Piyush. I am a senior software engineer at Clearmatics. I started my career in 2012 in a telecom startup. I liked being a part of a small and close-knit team which is why I have always chosen to work with startups during my career. I have always been passionate about distributed systems and recently fell in love with blockchain due to its immense potential. I believe that blockchain as a technology could revolutionize almost every industry, especially the finance sector.

Steph is the Head of People at Clearmatics. Steph owns and runs the business’ HR and Recruitment functions and all People Operations.

She’s worked in London based start-ups since 2014 and is passionate about self-development, trying new experiences & sharing experiences & knowledge with others.

Raj is a blockchain deployment researcher, passionate about decentralisation, security and SSI as he says “Crypto in my blood, Blockchain in my bones”.

He loves to read about tech, history, world politics, and run blockchain nodes in various testnets and mainnets in his spare time.

Zhangxin (Jason) Chen is a Senior Software Engineer at Clearmatics. Jason started his career in 2007 at a distributed computing lab of UESTC, as a lover of distributed computing, he experienced a solid engineering background in distributed database systems, p2p networking. He enjoys solving engineering issues by using academic research and theories, and loves to turn those research work into applications

Tudor has been playing with unicorns since the bulletin board and dial-up era, now he is helping Clearmatics engineer their own.

He is passionate about the constant evolution of Cloud Native and DevOps and how to weave together pipelines and automation to bring about efficiencies, increase team velocity, assure consistency, and in turn world peace.

Jack is the Social Media and Community Manager at Clearmatics. He is a skilled social marketeer with a hands on approach and has successfully built multiple online communities for his own and other businesses. He has a keen interest in and understanding of the blockchain space and looks forward to new challenges that will expand his knowledge.

Jack is also a passionate foodie, who has experienced some of the top restaurants around the world and enjoys writing reviews for them in his free time.

Lorenzo is a Junior Software Engineer at Clearmatics. He recently graduated from a double Degree program between Politecnico di Torino and Télécom ParisTech, where he conducted studies on Software Engineering and Security. He is interested in both the technological and societal innovations that the distributed systems and blockchain field brought forward.

He is a Linux enthusiast that loves to accomplish as many tasks as possible on the command line. He is also passionate about (the lack of) privacy and its implications.

Tom is the Data Engineer at Clearmatics. His work focuses on building and maintaining the company’s data infrastructure. He has experience working in tech companies in the cryptocurrency market and trading sector.

Tom studied Geophysics at Imperial College London and holds a masters in Data Science from UCL. In his free time he enjoys cooking. He is also a martial artist.

Edward is part of the research team, focussing on stabilisation mechanisms of stablecoins. He has previously worked as a quant trader in the prop trading and hedge fund industries, where he specialised in developing low-latency sentiment-driven strategies. He is passionate about physics and is a Cambridge alumnus.

Edward is a big fan of motorsports. He loves car mechanics and road trips.

Jay (another one!) is excited and proud to be part of a team that is at the forefront of current and future innovation that will become a big part of the financial space. In his spare time, Jay likes to tinker with home automation, go on bike rides and occasionally dip his toes in the sea (before running away screaming about how cold it is).

Maks is a Senior Software Engineer at Clearmatics. A serial blockchain maker, he has contributed to multiple crypto projects over the years. Privately, Maks can speedrun GTA Vice City in less than 80 minutes.

Holly supports the smooth running of key business and people operations here at Clearmatics, including finance, HR, engagement, events, and recruitment. In her spare time, Holly is often found being creative (trying her hand at everything from watercolour paintings to crochet projects) or playing video games with a cat in her lap!

In the past, Spencer has had the pleasure of working across various disciplines and industries as a Data Science consultant but eventually found his calling in the blockchain space. More recently, Spencer worked as a software engineer on crypto yield products at the Swiss Stock Exchange, specifically focussing on the Ethereum ecosystem after it’s move to PoS.

Spencer is an avid explorer, having visited 40+ countries so far, and loves being by the sea (He intends to complete his sailing certifications asap!). A bucket list item of his is to participate in the Mongol Rally (“the greatest motoring adventure on the planet”).

Tariq started his career as a Blockchain Core Developer and has been in love with this space ever since. He believes there are many new technologies and ideas yet to come in this space, so he likes to explore new ideas as much as possible. Tariq's passion lies within solving analytical and algorithmic problems.

Máté is a Senior Software Engineer at Clearmatics, focusing on the Python components. With a background in backend services development and test automation, he particularly enjoys working on distributed systems. In his spare time he takes pleasure in hiking, cycling, playing the guitar, and learning about the social and environmental impacts of technology.