Early Days of Ethereum

Preserving the history and stories of the people who built Ethereum.

People

This is a catalog of everybody who has been involved with the Ethereum Project in the phase prior to the creation of the Ethereum Foundation, or involved with the Ethereum Foundation after that was incorporated.

For simplicity, this catalog also includes individuals who were employed or contracted by Ethereum ÐΞV UG (Berlin) and other Ethereum project legal entities in Amsterdam, London, etc. These people were never directly employed by the EF in a strict legal sense, but for all practical purposes did "work for the Ethereum Foundation", as they were working part-time or full-time on the project with that work being funded by the EF.

Obviously, the list of people who have been involved with the Ethereum Project as a whole since its inception is now an astronomically long list. That is not the focus here – only on the Ethereum Foundation and other legal entities (to 2018), and on people involved in its pre-historical period, whether or not they actually worked for the EF or other legal entities during that nascent period.

Below are profiles and biographies for all of these individuals. Many are just stubs at the moment but the goal is to build detailed profiles for everyone, which will take considerable time to complete.

Contents

Whitepaper to "Red Wedding" (November 2013 to June 2014)

Nov 2013

Vitalik Buterin

Vitalik Buterin

Ethereum co-Founder

(Nov 2013 to present)

Dec 2013

Amir Chetrit

Amir Chetrit

Ethereum co-Founder

(Dec 2013 to Jun 2014)
Anthony D'Onofrio

Anthony D'Onofrio ("Texture")

Ethereum's first "community guy"

(Dec 2013 to Mar 2015 or maybe Apr 2015)
Anthony Di Iorio

Anthony Di Iorio

Ethereum co-Founder

(Dec 2013 to Dec 2015)
Charles Hoskinson

Charles Hoskinson

Ethereum co-Founder

(Dec 2013 to Jun 2014)
Gavin Wood

Gavin Wood

Ethereum co-Founder

(Dec 2013 to Oct 2015)
Jeff Wilcke

Jeff Wilcke

Ethereum co-Founder

(Dec 2013 to Feb 2017)
Jeremy Wood

Jeremy Wood

Executive Assistant to Charles Hoskinson

(Dec 2013 to Sep 2014)
Max Kaye

Max Kaye

Developer

(Dec 2013 to ???)
Mihai Alisie

Mihai Alisie

Ethereum co-Founder

(Dec 2013 to Oct 2015)
Nancy Wu

Nancy Wu

Early founding member

(Dec 2013 to Dec 2015)
Ryan Taylor

Ryan Taylor

Built the earliest websites

(Dec 2013 to Aug 2014?)
Taylor Gerring

Taylor Gerring

Ethereum Foundation co-Founder

(Dec 2013 to Dec 2016)

Jan 2014

Bin Lu

Bin Lu

Chinese strategy and translations (https://www.8bt6c.com/ethereum)

(Jan 2014 to ???)
Chris Odom

Chris Odom

Strategic Partner (Open Transactions)

(Jan 2014 to Feb 2024)
Dino Mark

Dino Mark

(Jan 2014 to ???)

Emanuele Costa

Quantitative Analyst, SCRUM Master

(Jan 2014 to ???)
Eric Lombrozo

Eric Lombrozo

Software Architect, MinGW32 cross-compilation of cpp-ethereum

(Jan 2014 to ???)
Hai Nguyen

Hai Nguyen

Accounting

(Jan 2014 to Jul 2015)
Jason Colby

Jason Colby

Administration

(Jan 2014 to Jan 2016)
Jerry Liu

Jerry Liu

Chinese strategy and translations (https://www.8bt6c.com/ethereum)

(Jan 2014 to ???)
Joe Lubin

Joe Lubin

Ethereum co-Founder, CEO and Founder, ConsenSys

(Jan 2014 to ???)
Jonathan Mohan

Jonathan Mohan

Education and outreach

(Jan 2014 to Oct 2014)
Kyle Kurbegovich

Kyle Kurbegovich

Media (CoinTalk)

(Jan 2014 to ???)
Louis Parker

Louis Parker

Just some guy who happened to be at the Miami house. Not a team member.

(Jan 2014 to ???)
Mathias Grønnebæk

Mathias Grønnebæk

Business Dev

(Jan 2014 to Oct 2014)

Matthew Wampler-Doty

(Jan 2014 to Apr 2014)

Paul Snow

Language Development, Software Development

(Jan 2014 to ???)
Roxana Sureanu

Roxana Sureanu

Administration

(Jan 2014 to July 2015)
Stephan Tual

Stephan Tual

Communications

(Jan 2014 to Sep 2015)

Steve Dakh

Developer (KryptoKit)

(Jan 2014 to ???)
Steven Nerayoff

Steven Nerayoff

(Jan 2014 to Dec 2014)

Wendell Davis

(Jan 2014 to ???)

Feb 2014

Aeron Buchanan

Aeron Buchanan

Researcher and Regulatory Compliance Expert. Head of European Finance and Operations

(Feb 2014 to Nov 2015)
Alex Leverington

Alex Leverington ("subtly")

C++ / P2P Network Developer

(Feb 2014 to Jul 2016)
Joseph Chow

Joseph Chow

(Feb 2014 to ???)
Neal Koblitz

Neal Koblitz

Cryptography advisor

(Feb 2014 to ???)
Nicolas Fierro

Nicolas Fierro ("Nick")

Development

(Feb 2014 to Jan 2015)

Preston Byrne

(Feb 2014 to ???)

Mar 2014

Ethan Wilding

Ethan Wilding

Administration

(Mar 2014 to Apr 2017)
Houwu Chen

Houwu Chen

Development/Chinese Partner

(Mar 2014 to ???)
Jarrad Hope

Jarrad Hope

(Mar 2014 to ???)

Joris Bontje

Continuous integration (CI), EtherCasts with Joel Dietz, building dapps

(Mar 2014 to ???)
Kieren James-Lubin

Kieren James-Lubin

Haskell client developer, Co-Founder of BlockApps

(Mar 2014 to ???)
Konrad Feldmeier

Konrad Feldmeier

Python client developer

(Mar 2014 to ???)

Lorenzo Patuzzo

Carpenter at The Spaceship

(Mar 2014 to ???)
Maran Hidskes

Maran Hidskes

Development

(Mar 2014 to Sep 2014)

Roman Mandeleil

(Mar 2014 to ???)
Stuart Hoegner

Stuart Hoegner

(Mar 2014 to ???)

Tim Hughes

Ethash

(Mar 2014 to ???)

Apr 2014

Marko Simovic

Continuous integration (CI)

(Apr 2014 to ???)

Matt Liston

(Apr 2014 to Jun 2015)

Vlad Zamfir

(Apr 2014 to ???)

May 2014

Addison Cameron-Huff

Addison Cameron-Huff

Legal

(May 2014 to ???)

Brian Fabian Crain

(May 2014 to ???)
Karl Gluck

Karl Gluck

Research

(May 2014 to ???)
Marian Oancea

Marian Oancea

Senior Web Developer

(May 2014 to Sep 2015)
Martin Becze

Martin Becze

Core Developer

(May 2014 to ???)
Ralph Merkle

Ralph Merkle

Cryptography advisor

(May 2014 to ???)

June 2014

Konstantin Kudryavtsev

Konstantin Kudryavtsev

(June 2014 to Jan 2016)

Stiftung Ethereum and ETH DEV (July 2014 to February 2015)

Aug 2014

George Hallam

George Hallam

(Aug 2014 to Oct 2016)

Roland Wilder

Builder of the ETHÐΞV space in Berlin

(Aug 2014 to Nov 2014)

Sarah O'Neill

Interior designer who built the ETHÐΞV space in Berlin

(Aug 2014 to Nov 2014)

Sep 2014

Christoph Jentzsch

Christoph Jentzsch

(Sep 2014 to Nov 2015)

Oct 2014

Alex van de Sande

Alex van de Sande ("avsa")

Designer, Mist

(Oct 2014 to Jan 2019)
Daniel Nagy

Daniel Nagy

Swarm

(Oct 2014 to ???)
Felix Lange

Felix Lange

(Oct 2014 to present)
Florian Glatz

Florian Glatz

(Oct 2014 to present)
Marek Kotewicz

Marek Kotewicz ("debris")

(Oct 2014 to Dec 2015)
Vincent G

Vincent G ("caktuk")

Continuous integration (CI)

(Oct 2014 to ???)

Nov 2014

Alistair Stewart

Alistair Stewart

(Nov 2014 to ???)
Arkadiy Paronyan

Arkadiy Paronyan

(Nov 2014 to Dec 2015)

Artur Zawłocki

Software engineer, C++ team and VM

(Nov 2014 to ???)
Christian Vömel

Christian Vömel

Hub Manager, Berlin

(Nov 2014 to Apr 2017)
Freya Stevens

Freya Stevens

PR/Marketing lead

(Nov 2014 to Nov 2014)

Henning Diedrich

(Nov 2014 to ???)
Jutta Steiner

Jutta Steiner

(Nov 2014 to Oct 2015)
Ken Kappler

Ken Kappler

(Nov 2014 to Sep 2015)
Lefteris Karapetsas

Lefteris Karapetsas

(Nov 2014 to Jan 2016)

Paweł Bylica ("chfast")

Software engineer, C++ team and VM

(Nov 2014 to Jun 2025)

Piotrek Janiuk

(Nov 2014 to ???)
Sven Ehlert

Sven Ehlert

(Nov 2014 to Mar 2015)
Vinay Gupta

Vinay Gupta

Release Coordinator

(Nov 2014 to June 2015)
Yann Levreau

Yann Levreau ("yann300")

Mix and Remix

(Nov 2014 to ???)

Dec 2014

Dimitry Khokhlov ("winsvega")

(Dec 2014 to Jun 2025)

Jan 2015

Fabian Vogelsteller ("frozeman")

ERC-20, Mist and web3.js

(Jan 2015 to Aug 2018)

Liana Husikyan

Mix and Remix

(Jan 2015 to around Jun 2016)

The Interregnum (March 2015 to June 2015)

Mar 2015

Frithjof Weinert

CFO, ETHÐΞV

(Mar 2015 to Jun 2017)

Kelley Becker

COO, ETHÐΞV

(Mar 2015 to June 2017)
Zsolt Felföldi

Zsolt Felföldi

Geth core developer

(Mar 2015 to present)

Apr 2015

Bas van Kervel ("bas-vk")

Core Developer (Geth)

(Apr 2015 to Jul 2017)

Jannik Luhn

Python developer - intern at Ethereum ÐΞV UG

(Apr 2015 to Nov 2015)
Péter Szilágyi

Péter Szilágyi ("kakalabe")

Geth Team Lead

(Apr 2015 to Nov 2024)

Jun 2015

Lars Klawitter

Lars Klawitter

Board member

(Jun 2015 to Dec 2015)
Vadim Levitin

Vadim Levitin

Board member

(Jun 2015 to Jan 2016)
Wayne Hennessy-Barrett

Wayne Hennessy-Barrett

Board member

(Jun 2015 to Jan 2016)

The Ming Dynasty (July 2015 to January 2018)

Jul 2015

Ming Chan

Ming Chan

Executive Director

(Jul 2015 to Jan 2018)
Tung Chan

Tung Chan

General Counsel

(Jul 2015 to Apr 2018)
William Mougayar

William Mougayar

Advisor

(Jul 2015 to Feb 2017)

Aug 2015

Jacob Stenum Czepluch

Jacob Stenum Czepluch

ETHÐΞV intern

(Aug 2015 to Dec 2015)

Ulrich Petri

Python developer

(Aug 2015 to Nov 2016 (but never in the EF))

Sep 2015

Stefano Bartolo

Stefano Bartolo

Advisor

(Sep 2015 to Feb 2017)

Oct 2015

Bernd Lapp

Bernd Lapp

Advisor

(Oct 2015 to Feb 2017)

Dec 2015

Yessin Schiegg

Yessin Schiegg

Advisor

(Dec 2015 to Feb 2017)

Jan 2016

Alex 'axic' Beregszaszi

Lead of Ewasm and Co-Lead of Solidity. Research Lead at Team Ipsilon

(Jan 2016 to July 2025)

Feb 2016

Bob Summerwill

Bob Summerwill

Core Developer (C++) and initiated the Early Days of Ethereum project.

(Feb 2016 to Oct 2016)

David Ben Kay

Advisor

(Feb 2016 to Dec 2016)

Mar 2016

Greg Colvin

Core Developer (C++ and EVM)

(Mar 2016 to Oct 2017)

Thomas Greco

Advisor

(Mar 2016 to ???)

Apr 2016

Everton Fraga

Mist team member

(Apr 2016 to Nov 2020)

April 2016

Luca Zeug ("luclu")

Mist team member

(April 2016 to July 2016)

May 2016

Vladislav Martynov

Vladislav Martynov

Advisor

(May 2016 to May 2019)

Jun 2016

Hudson Jameson

OrgSec Lead, Network Upgrade Management/Comms, Chief Cat Herder, DevOps Lead

(Jun 2016 to Apr 2021)

Jamie Pitts

(Jun 2016 to ???)

June 2016

Nick Johnson

Core Developer (Geth) and Ethereum Name Service (ENS)

(June 2016 to Aug 2018)

July 2016

Lilit Penrod

Volunteer at DEVCON2 and DEVCON3

(July 2016 to Sep 2016)

Sep 2016

Martin Holst Swende

Geth maintainer and security guy

(Sep 2016 to Apr 2025)

Yoichi Hirai

EIPs Editor

(Sep 2016 to Oct 2018)

Oct 2016

Patrick Storchenegger

Board member

(Oct 2016 to present)

Virgil Griffith

Research Scientist and Special Projects

(Oct 2016 to Nov 2019)

Dec 2016

Andrei Maiboroda ("gumb0")

Software Engineer and Researcher

(Dec 2016 to ???)

Jan 2017

John Frazer

External Relations Lead

(Jan 2017 to Jan 2018)

Feb 2017

Victor Taelin (was Victor Maia)

Lead Developer, Mist

(Feb 2017 to Jan 2019)

Apr 2017

J Mohamed Zahoor

Swarm

(Apr 2017 to Oct 2017)

May 2017

Jason Carver

Python & Rust Core Developer

(May 2017 to July 2025)

Piper Merriam

(May 2017 to July 2025)

Jun 2017

Matthew di Ferrante

Security Engineer

(Jun 2017 to Jan 2019)

Jul 2017

Nicholas Lin

(Jul 2017 to Dec 2019)

Sep 2017

Jon Choi

(Sep 2017 to Aug 2018)

Karl Floersch

Research

(Sep 2017 to Jan 2020)

Oct 2017

Catherine Bühler-Todd

Executive Assistant to Ethereum Foundation board

(Oct 2017 to Dec 2018)

The Infinite Garden (February 2018 onwards)

Feb 2018

Albert Ni

Undefined

(Feb 2018 to present)

Aya Miyaguchi

Executive Director and later President

(Feb 2018 to present)

Other

Aaron Davis ("Kumavis")

MetaMask Co-Founder

Amir Taaki

'Anarchist Amir' to Amir Chetrit's 'Capitalist Amir', Gav met Johnny through Amir Taaki.

Camilo Russo

Author of The Infinite Machine

Dan Finlay

MetaMask Co-Founder

Dmitry Buterin

Vitalik's father, Co-Founder of BlockGeeks

Herbert Sterchi

Swiss local who helped with the setup of the Ethereum Foundation

James Hormuzdiar ("Jim")

Co-Founder of BlockApps, Haskell client developer

Joel Dietz

Meetup organizer, EtherCasts with Joris Bontje, his own Swarm project (not ethswarm)

Johann Gevers

Co-Founder, Monetas and founder of "Crypto Valley"

Ksenya S

Documentary crew at DEVCON0

Lisa Cheng

Ethereum Foundation Team Member

Matthew Leising

Author of Out of The Ether

Natalia Ameline

Vitalik's mother, Co-Founder of CryptoChicks, Metis Foundation

Nick Savers

Continuous integration (CI)

Nora

Ethereum's biggest mystery.

Victor Wong

Co-Founder of BlockApps, Haskell client developer