# Alex Werner Full-stack Engineer & Crypto / P2P Specialist Toulouse, France · obusco@gmail.com · https://alex.werner.fr GitHub: https://github.com/Alex-Werner · Twitter: https://twitter.com/obusco · LinkedIn: https://fr.linkedin.com/in/alex-werner-nodejs · YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/AlexWerner42 ## Summary - 12+ years of full-stack engineering across web, mobile and decentralized systems; 9+ years in blockchain, crypto and DeFi. - Co-invented the ChainLocks & SML/DML consensus at Dash Core Group (patent US20220108285A1); the technology now secures $350B+. - Shipped 20+ production smart contracts (ERC-20/721/1155/4626, vote-escrow governance, treasury, time-locks) and invented a crypto-RWA index on a ~$100M-TVL protocol. - Led and hired engineering teams; co-founder and head-of-engineering experience with strong product ownership and architecture leadership. - Security-conscious, adversarial-environment hardened: smart-contract audits, operational security, 0-day crisis response. - Public speaker and writer — Money20/20, conferences, podcasts and interviews. ## Skills **Languages:** JavaScript, TypeScript, Go, Solidity, Python, Rust, Shell **Frameworks:** Node.js, React, Next.js, Nest.js, Hardhat, Tailwind **Blockchain & DeFi:** EVM, Cosmos-SDK, Solana, Consensus, Wallet architecture, DEX / AMM design, Tokenomics, Cryptography **Infrastructure:** Docker, Kubernetes, Dagster, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, CI/CD, ZMQ, RabbitMQ ## Experience ### Stealth — Lead Engineer 2024 — present · Remote - Designed and shipped 20+ production contracts — ERC-20/721/1155/4626, vote-escrow governance, treasury and time-lock mechanisms, with the financial-math models behind them. - Invented a crypto-MSCI-World-style index for real-world assets (iREET). - Built the SSR frontend (Next.js / Tailwind), RPC tooling, a deployer suite and dockerized localnets that mirror mainnet. - Stood up a ZK-based KYC + NFT proof-of-ownership validation flow. - Owned the security & audit process: comprehensive unit + e2e tests, CI workflows and the documentation site. Tech: Security, Solidity, OpenZeppelin, ERC-4626, ve-Governance, ZK, Next.js, Docker, Chainlink ### JMES World — Head of Engineering 2022 — 2023 · Berlin - Bootstrapped the JMES P2P consensus protocol (Go / Cosmos-SDK) securing the DAO. - Built an EU-regulation-compliant tokenization model for art pieces (Warhol, …). - Shipped a from-scratch React Native app and the Web3 connectivity libraries beneath it. - Defined the engineering roadmap, infra (AWS / Docker), token model and yellow paper. Tech: Go, Cosmos-SDK, Rust, TypeScript, React Native ### Zebitex — Head of Innovation 2021 — 2022 · Toulouse - Led ICO strategy (whitepaper, tokenomics) and a staking / multi-asset basket platform. - Integrated BNB/BEP20, XTZ (FA 1.2 & 2.0), TRX and USDT into trading pairs; co-developed an MIT-licensed Tezos library. - Hardened core systems: transaction monitoring & signing, ed25519 derivation, live-status monitoring, mint/burn CLI. Tech: Ruby, TypeScript, Tezos, BSC, TRON, Kubernetes ### Dash Core Group — Lead → Principal Developer 2016 — 2021 · Phoenix, AZ - Co-invented ChainLocks and the long-living masternode quorums (SML / DML) — a consensus breakthrough now woven into projects securing $350B+. - Named inventor on patent US20220108285A1 (object-validated blockchain accounts). - Spearheaded Dash's decentralized API (DAPI) and conceived the flagship DashPay wallet (React Native). - Led and hired the platform & wallet teams; introduced Agile, the GitHub org and the NPM namespace. - Maintained 10+ OSS packages; frequent public speaker and evangelist; 0-day crisis response. Tech: Rust, Tendermint, JavaScript, C++, P2P, Security, React Native ### Tantium — Co-founder / Head of Engineering 2021 — 2022 · Bordeaux - Led tech and product for a B2C/B2B real-estate tokenization platform. - Authored the legal framework — the first European product to fully comply — plus whitepaper and tokenomics. - Engineered the application chain, currency, smart contracts and backend infrastructure. - Carried the RWA-housing thesis forward — it later became iREET. Tech: Next.js, React, Solidity ### Yggdrasil Digital — Founder · Engineering studio 2018 — present · Toulouse - Built market-data → OHLCV pipelines, real-time signal engines and an autonomous trading & portfolio agent driven by 100+ indicators. - Delivered a Stellar-funded cross-chain DEX + bridge enabling Stellar ↔ EVM asset interoperability. - Designed and built a from-scratch L0/L1 P2P networking stack and L2 apps — Scintilla. - Engineered event-driven, microservice data-orchestration systems (Dagster + Redis job queues) for horizontal scale, and mentored teams on infrastructure and CI/CD. - Led tokenomics, architecture and audits as a Web3 / ICO advisor; authored whitepapers and SDKs. Tech: Node.js, Go, Rust, Solidity, Dagster, Redis, PostgreSQL, ZMQ, Cosmos-SDK ### Giraf World — First engineer · Full-stack 2016 — 2017 · Toulouse - Built the full microservice social-network stack (Node.js + AngularJS) as the first engineer. - Designed a hybrid content-based recommender system. - Owned the infrastructure end to end: IPv6/SSL, monitoring, backups, security. Tech: Node.js, React, AngularJS, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, WebSocket ### Orange Business Services — R&D Engineer 2013 — 2015 · Toulouse - Built features for the Orange Pro webmail (10M+ users). - Researched and built hybrid, responsive applications on a company framework. - Shipped a stadium ticketing system (33,150 seats) for Toulouse Football Club. Tech: Node.js, HTML5, MongoDB, SCSS, PhoneGap ### The Origins — Webmaster → Founder 2003 — 2008 · Lieuran-lès-Béziers - Built the town website and a Stargate fan encyclopedia from age ~10. - Ran Dreamovies, a Netflix-shaped streaming site, at 15 — 1M+ hits in under a year, AdSense-profitable. - Closed it himself when the law changed. Tech: HTML, PHP, MySQL, AdSense ## Education - Ingesup, France — B.Sc / M.Sc — Computing Engineering (2011 – 2015) - Faculty of Sciences, Montpellier, France — A.S. (2014) ## Patents - US20220108285A1 — Methods & Systems for Object-Validated Blockchain Accounts. Co-inventor — the patented foundation behind ChainLocks & SML/DML. (https://patents.google.com/patent/US20220108285A1) ## Open source - TyrDB — Fast in-memory database for Node & browser, from scratch (built on an SBTree). (https://github.com/Alex-Werner/TyrDB) - SBTree — Optimised document store using a B+Tree for fields; in-memory & filesystem adapters. (https://github.com/Alex-Werner/SBTree) - Bifrost WSS — WebSocket server with rooms, topics and auth — request/response over pub/sub. (https://github.com/Alex-Werner/bifrost-wss) - Node-Askr — Simple microservice event & command dispatcher. (https://github.com/Alex-Werner/node-askr) - FSLockJS — Filesystem queue with locking and events; async directory/file utilities. (https://github.com/Alex-Werner/FSLockJS) ## Languages English (Proficient) · French (Native) · Russian (Conversational)