NEX is a platform for high performance decentralized exchange and payment

Fabio C. Canesin

Fabio holds a MSc in computational mechanics and variational multi-scale modeling, and is a researcher engineer in the Oil & Gas industry. He has developed software in several large projects that have had deployed impact on billions of dollars of assets. He is also the source of the original vision for the City of Zion community, which brought together the founders of NEX. Before that Fabio co-founded and acted as CTO of Lemonaid Learning Analytics startup in Brazil.

Fabian Wahle

Fabian has extensive knowledge in machine learning and AI through his PhD from ETH Zurich. Previously, he co-founded the award winning med-tech company Altoida (RICE Alliance: most promising life sciences startup, TOP100 Swiss Startups) where he currently acts in the role of CTO. He discovered crypto in 2014, and after finding Antshares in early 2016 helped to nurture and grow the community as a co-founding member of CoZ.

Ethan Fast

Ethan is an entrepreneur and research scientist with a background in HCI and AI. He has led more than 10 projects to publication in prestigious venues such as CHI, UIST, EMNLP, and AAAI, where they have won multiple awards. He first became interested in blockchain technology in 2014, and later turned that interest to Antshares as a co-founding member of CoZ. Previously, he founded a Y Combinator funded startup, Proxino, before returning to Stanford to complete his PhD.

Luciano Engel

Luciano is a mechanical engineer and entrepreneur with seven years of experience in structural simulation: over this time, he has been involved as a development partner in several technology and educational startups in Brazil. He first encountered AntShares while designing a previous cryptocurrency startup, after which he became a founding member of CoZ and the creator of the NEOScan project.

Thomas Saunders

Philosophy student by training and software developer of 10 years by trade, Thomas has spent the last 2 years leading development at a startup incubator within University of Minnesota's College of Education.

Thomas is a founding member of CoZ, developer of neo-python and the Python compiler for NEO Smart Contracts, contributes to the NEO Core project, and is very, very familiar with the NEO Virtual Machine.

Nathaniel Walpole

Nathaniel has more than 8 years experience delivering user-centered design solutions to Fortune 500 clients, including GSK, Sanofi, Novartis, Takeda and AbbVie. His work for Kallidus helped increased their mobile engagement by over 1300% and earned him a prestigious UX UK design award for Best Education or Learning Experience in 2017. He has designed for a diverse set of industries including blockchain, financial, e-commerce, SaaS and healthcare-tech.

Samuel J. Mansfield

Samuel is a self-taught designer and front-end developer who specializes in user-centered e-commerce design. He has more than 8 years of experience working in the healthcare, media, e-commerce and financial industries, where he has designed for several Alexa 500 websites.

David Schwartz

Prior to working at NEX, David was a full stack developer on the Core Engineering team at the Leaf Group (NYSE: LFGR). During this time, David was responsible for building an in-house content management system and optimizing ad revenue for media properties with over 100MM monthly page views. David is a contributor to the neon wallet (ledger integration) and NEOScan projects and has a bachelors degree from the University of California, Berkeley.

Evgeny Boxer

Evgeny is a software developer with over 10 years of experience, where he has worked for large companies such as Wix (NASDAQ: WIX) and startups such as the Accel backed PropellerAero.

Previously, he built trading interfaces for Forex brokers at Leverate, and he is a core contributor to Neon Wallet.

Carla F. Paiva

Carla is a marketing professional with an MBA in customs laws and international trade. She also holds an MSc in strategic management with a focus in innovation. Prior to NEX, she oversaw millions of dollars of international trade with Chinese suppliers.

Clare Saunders

Marketing and communications enthusiast, successful at developing and implementing strategic key messaging and content for multi-channel initiatives from consumer engagement to branding and sales for large corporations such as Buffalo Wild Wings and Best Buy as well as small to mid-size agencies and retailers. Process-oriented leader with expertise in all aspects of program and project management - definition, planning, prioritization, risk assessment, resource allocation and measurement.

Jakub E. Mucha

Jakub is a passionate software tester with more than five years of experience in a broad range of testing types. Before joining NEX, he worked as QA Engineer in YouGov and was responsible for automated testing of web and mobile (iOS and Android) apps. Jakub was also responsible for management of the QA team, creation of internal testing frameworks, general automation of repeatable tasks including DevOps and ChatOps.

His main goals are to succeed in a challenging environment and to constantly develop software testing skills.

Chris Hager

Chris is an engineer and technologist with 20 years of professional experience in software development, system architecture, cloud infrastructure, operating systems, scalable and distributed applications, blockchain and mobile applications, as well as embedded systems and electronics.

He successfully served as CTO for several companies and led teams in building scalable systems, applications and platforms with a variety of programming languages, stacks and frameworks.

Vidhun Vinod

Vidhun is a full-stack developer with over five years of experience building mobile and web software. Before joining NEX, Vidhun worked on several products for cryptocurrency exchanges with established user bases. As a core developer at JIO telecom (India) his team successfully deployed a large-scale payments system.

Alexander Hulbert

Alex is a full-stack javascript developer with over five years of experience in a wide range of disciplines including frontend development and security. Prior to his work at Neon Exchange, Alex lead the development of diverse open-source software projects in areas such as mobile security and music intelligence.

Andrej Gajdos

Andrej is a technology consultant, software engineer, full stack developer and technology blogger with over six years of experience delivering software. He has worked worldwide for clients from diverse industries such as government, media, civil engineering and data analytics. Andrej is in the top 3% as a freelance engineer within Toptal.

Shimi Liderman

Shimi is a software engineer with almost ten years of diverse experience. His most recent position at Wix.com drove him to lead some of the company's core efforts, from classic customer facing UI features to behind-the-scenes systems servicing developers (Wix Code). Shimi’s mission is to make the world a better place by using software.