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Alex Beregszaszi

Researcher & Founder

Dublin, County Dublin

Invests in

Stages:

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $5,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $50,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $30,000.00

Skills

Team Leadership
Research and Development (R&D)
Entrepreneurship
Ethereum
Blockchain
Bitcoin
Open Source
Web Applications
Embedded Software
Mobile Applications
Embedded Systems
Early-stage Startups
Product Management
FinTech
Agile Methodologies
Software Design
Software Development
Distributed Systems
Android Development
JavaScript

Education

Work Experience

  • Research Lead at Team Ipsilon

    2022

    The Ipsilon team focuses on researching improvements around the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). Our work can be seen at https://ipsilon.xyz

  • Lead of Ewasm & Co-lead of Solidity

    2016 - 2022

    Starting 2015 worked as a researcher and engineer in the EthereumJS team. Created libraries such as ethereumjs-wallet and contributing heavily to ethereumjs-vm and other core packages. The Ewasm team spun out of EthereumJS with me taking leadership for a number of years. We have worked on implementing Ethereum-flavoured Webassembly (Ewasm in short) and performed research around execution on Ethereum, including EVM and "Eth 2.0". Parallel to this work have been contributing to language design and compiler engineering on Solidity starting 2015, later assuming co-lead position helping Christian build out the team, and finally both of us transitioning off.

  • Co-Founder

    2021

BLEND

2015 - 2016

  • Founder

    2015 - 2016

    With BLEND we were building the next generation of payment cards powered with the blockchain. The BLEND Bitcoin payment card offers zero transaction fees for the merchants and zero exchange fees for the users. See http://blend.money for more information.

2014 - 2015

  • Co-Founder

    2014 - 2015

    Signatur was one of the first companies in Ireland to conduct research about different blockchain applications. We have created concepts and prototypes, such as a direct instant payment network between China and Europe. Signatur was involved with leading financial companies in Ireland to conduct its research during the Fintech Innovation Lab and the NDRC Launchpad programme.

2010 - 2014

  • Lead Systems Architect (Embedded)

    2012 - 2014

    Worked on embedded payment systems using multiple programming languages and environments. It included POS terminals, embedded gateways and Windows backend services.

  • Senior Embedded Software Engineer

    2011 - 2012

    Worked on embedded payment systems using multiple programming languages and environments. It included POS terminals, embedded gateways and Windows backend services.

  • Embedded Software Engineer

    2010 - 2011

    Worked on embedded payment systems using multiple programming languages and environments. It included POS terminals, embedded gateways and Windows backend services.

Anesso

2009 - 2010

  • Co-Founder & CTO

    2009 - 2010

    As an online media agency specialising in social media campaigns, Anesso was highly successful in the Hungarian market with securing big clients (such as running the the CEE campaign for Nissan Juke).

2007 - 2010

  • Co-Founder & CTO

    2007 - 2010

    Managed hosting solutions provider. VPS, domain registration and hosting.

2006 - 2010

  • Founder

    2006 - 2010

    Siqon was a software consulting firm working with clients on creating multimedia and financial applications. Our projects included browser plugins for online payments, payment gateway integrations, various video encoders and video playback systems.

2008 - 2009

  • Senior Software Engineer

    2008 - 2009

    Worked on an online video sharing service with integration with digital home television systems.

2007 - 2007

  • Research Assistant

    2007 - 2007

    Worked on 3D recording, playback and streaming in the Virtual Human Interface Group.