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Co-Founder / Head of Tech

The Orthocorp Ltd.

The Other Guy

BlockChain Magic

Co-Founder / Wizard

Vertikal

Co-Founder / Blockchain Illuminator

NFiniTi

Co-Founder / CTO

Sharkaroo

A Digital Securities Product Management firm with operations in Paris, Bangkok & San Diego.

Co-Founder / CEO

Focusing on investment opportunities for blockchain related technology companies and tokenized assets.

Director, Sharkaroo Alpha Ventures

ICO Expert - Coin Governance System

Speaker at several conferences & keynotes on Distributed Ledger Technologies: Soi Blockchain, AWS Big Data & Blockchain conference, Sasin University, Chulalongkorn University, ...

Consulting, Advisory Roles & Public speaking

Jetsetcrypto.com - A streamlined travel ecosystem built on blockchain technology.

Advisor To The Board - JetSetCrypto

Advisor (Tech lead, ICO) - Conscious OS

DevOps Factory

DevOps application architecture, engineering support, infrastructure, troubleshooting across SME, and FinTech applications on AWS, Google, Azure, and IBM Cloud.

Co-Founder / Solutions Architect

Paychant

Advisor To The Board

NUXOS

NUXOS PUBLISHING TECHNOLOGIES

DISCLAIMER: Crispin Courtenay's latest AI gerbil has written my profile bio. Let's see how it goes.

Richard Piacentini (1) is a highly respected industry thought leader (2) and international (3) Software Development and Blockchain speaker. 

(1) Yep, that's me! That's a good start!
(2) The AI mistakenly identified my friend Keir Finlow-Bates as me, even though I didn't say anything.
(3) If you're interested, I live in Thailand as a French national, hence the "international" part.

With over 25 years of experience (4) as an extreme (5) software engineer and architect, Richard has a proven track record of delivering innovative and highly scalable solutions for his clients. 

(4) & (5) Let's not focus on that too much.

He has also coordinated multiple international conferences (6) focused on the Ruby programming language, cementing his status as a leading voice in the industry. 

(6) It started from 2006 to 2012, at first with 20 people meeting in a pizzeria restaurant; the significance of this now is questionable.

Richard is the CEO and co-founder of Sharkaroo (7), a Software Development firm with operations in Paris, Bangkok, and San Diego. 

(7) Sharkaroo? Brilliant! Crispin found the name, and I wish it was me; he was (moderately) drunk, however.

He is both a Blockchain Solutions Architect and a Senior Software Development Architect, which has helped him become a successful tech entrepreneur and investor with over 25 years of leading development teams in five different countries. (8) 

(8) This sentence has 36 words and only one comma! 

An expert on blockchain technology, smart contracts, distributed ledger frameworks, digital assets, securities tokenization, software architecture, and software development, Richard brings high-level experience working with government, banking, media, and start-up partners. (9)

(9) Who gave you that list?

 In addition, Richard has worked closely with Crispin Courtenay (10) on numerous projects over the past five years, including developing cutting-edge blockchain solutions.

(10) Did you ask the AI to add your name to my profile?

In January 2022, Richard teamed up with Keir Finlow-Bates to engineer the largest NFT airdrop ever on the Ethereum mainnet. They distributed 1.5 quindecillion, which is 1.5 followed by 48 zeros, unique virtual land tokens, one for each Ethereum address that has existed, exists, or will exist in the future. (11)

(11) Still one of my best moments ever!

That began their experimental metaverse project, "The Orthoverse is Doomed!". (12)

(12) In the end, we all are, memento mori! 

Richard Piacentini

CHEQs

I'm helping Richard Piacentini build and test a platform to allow people to transfer crypto and stablecoins in a reliable and a secure manner. CHEQs provides a system that removes the feeling of dread you have when you hit the  "confirm" on a large (or even small) blockchain transaction.

Founder and test engineer

Resonance Security

Acting as a writer-in-residence, I talk to the Resonance technical staff and partners on a regular basis, and then produce articles explaining or examining issues in the blockchain and security space.

Advisor

Chainfrog

This is my first company: a Finnish blockchain research and development outfit focused on inventing blockchain technologies and developing intellectual property. We currently hold 13 patents for innovations all built around blockchain and one for magnetic locationing (that are for sale).

CEO and Founder

Working on possible the most interesting and least lucrative NFT/metaverse project in the blockchain space, and hoping to accidentally reverse the latter while keeping the former.

Metaverse Wizard

Helsinki Blockchain Center

The Helsinki Blockchain Center aims to educate and inform the Finnish blockchain technology scene, and foster collaboration between private and public sector organizations. As a board member my duties include assessing the technical merit of proposed blockchain projects, and continue promoting and explaining blockchain to the world. They also make me take board meeting minutes from time to time.

Board Member

PMCC Ltd - Crypto Club-LDN

Developed a bespoke gas-reduced ERC1155 token for a London private members club focused on crypto and defi.

Solidity Developer

ARGANS

ARGANS is a scientific research company in the Earth Observation sector. I am working with ARGANS as a consultant on a European Space Agency-funded project titled "Building trust in the digital economy", and provide other blockchain-related advice and training as needed.

Blockchain Consultant

NFT Alley

I provided weekly analysis and advice to the NFT Alley project, in the areas of technical approaches and business development.

Blockchain Advisor

The Advertising Currency

TAC was a blockchain project that, unfortunately, turned out to be a bust, with the founder leaving to produce NFT artwork instead. I did successfully debug their badly implemented consensus protocol, ported the browser extension wallet, and produced an install script for the project. And I learned the hard way that enthusiam isn't enough to make a project succeed.

Node Operator  and Volunteer Developer

Exafore

Exafore develops indoor/outdoor positioning systems using ultra-wide band radio technology, providing location accuracy in the centimetre scale. I provide consultancy and programming services to enable regression testing of the hardware and server software using the Python Robot Framework test system.

Test Automation Consultant

I walk through the woods thinking about blockchain

I like to understand and contemplate difficult technical concepts to the point that I can explain them to non-technical people. My focus for the last twelve years has been blockchain, although I know a bit about GNSS, databases, security and cryptography, and test automation.

I also like working out where technology fits into the business world, and how it can impact us in a psychological, sociological, and even philosophical sense.

I wish people would stop asking me to "also develop a website for the project, if you can."

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