Meet the team

We're building the Celestia network

Team
Advisors

Our team has deep experience building and scaling blockchains from projects like Ethereum, Cosmos and Harmony.

We are on a mission to change the way that blockchains and decentralized applications are built—making them more secure, scalable and sovereign. We envision a world where global communities have the power to self-organize without being burdened by existing power structures.

Mustafa Al-Bassam

CEO, Celestia Labs

PhD in blockchain scaling at UCL, Co-founder of Chainspace (acquired by Facebook)

Ismail Khoffi

CTO, Celestia Labs

Former senior engineer at Tendermint and Interchain Foundation

John Adler

CRO, Celestia Labs

Creator of Optimistic Rollups, previously scalability researcher at ConsenSys

Nick White

COO, Celestia Labs

Co-founder of Harmony, BS & MS from Stanford

Tomasz Zdybał

Software Engineer

Former core developer at Ethereum Classic, trust minimization maximalist

Hlib Kanunnikov

Software Engineer

Previously lead developer at ProximaX, networking enthusiast

Evan Forbes

Software Engineer

Former data engineer, rollup maximalist

Rene Lubov

Software Engineer

Former engineer at Go Ethereum with a background in distributed systems testing

Nhu Viet Nguyen

Software Engineer

Former testing engineer at Oracle

Josh Bowen

Software Engineer

Former software engineer at Google

Rachid Chami

Software Engineer

Bitcoin believer, security enthusiast, former blockchain developer at Web3 Labs

Aditi Sriram

Product Manager

Former product manager at The Graph and ConsenSys, with a background in developer growth

Viacheslav Gonkivskyi

Software Engineer

Former software engineer at Luxoft

Manav Aggarwal

Software Engineer

Former contributor at Nebula Protocol and Two Sigma Investments, BS & MS from Stanford

Yaz Khoury

Head of Developer Relations

Former DevRel engineer at Celo Foundation and former Director of DevRel at Ethereum Classic

Ekram Ahmed

Head of Marketing and Communications

Former positioning and strategy consultant for Facebook and Google

Tejinder Nijjer

Operations Associate

Former project manager at Xerox and Elekta

Jeremy Sklaroff

General Counsel

Former general counsel of Edge & Node/The Graph and financial regulatory attorney at Davis Polk

Nader Dabit

Developer Relations

Former DevRel at Edge & Node and former DevRel lead at AWS

Rootul Patel

Software Engineer

Former software engineer at Palantir and AWS

Advisors

Morgan Beller

General Partner, NFX and Co-creator, Diem≋ (fka Libra)

Ethan Buchman

Co-founder, Tendermint and Co-founder, Cosmos

Zaki Manian

Co-creator, IBC and early Cosmos contributor

James Prestwich

Founder, Nomad

George Danezis

Professor of Security and Privacy Engineering, University College London

Matthew Di Ferrante

Security expert and auditor, Ethereum contributor since 2014

Marko Baricevic

Software Engineer, Interchain Foundation