Maxim Orlovsky
Founding Director at Institute for Distributed and Cognitive Systems
Zug, Switzerland
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Top SchoolMaxim Orlovsky is a transhumanist engineer and entrepreneur with 15 years’ experience building cryptographic, decentralized and cognitive systems from research labs to production. As Founding Director of the Institute for Distributed and Cognitive Systems and CTO/former CEO of Pandora Prime, he focuses on scalable, censorship-resistant architectures for self-sovereignty, DeFi and AGI, including layer‑2 smart contract scaling targeted at millions of TPS. He holds an MD and PhD in Neuroscience, has won national and international science awards, and was invited to the Lindau Nobel Laureates meeting—bringing rigorous neuroscience research practices into system design. An active open‑source contributor in the Bitcoin ecosystem, his technical work spans rust-lightning, rust-miniscript and rust-secp256k1, where he’s contributed refactors, cryptographic key handling and iterator abstractions that improve library robustness. He also backs radical transhumanist ventures as General Partner at Event Horizons, blending deep science, product leadership and venture support to accelerate long-term technological progress.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Medicine (MD), Doctor of Medicine (MD) at Zaporizhzhya State Medical UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Neuroscience, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Neuroscience at Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology, National Academy of SicencesLiceum LogosPostdoctoral fellowship Neuroscience, Postdoctoral fellowship Neuroscience at University of Bristol
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Github Skills (20)
min10
lightning-network10
bitcoin10
bitcoins10
signature10
secp256k110
cryptography10
iterator10
rust10
tinyscript10
data-structure9
algorithm9
dependency-management9
algorithms9
security9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
rust-bitcoin/rust-miniscript
Jul 2020 - Apr 2022
Support for Miniscript and Output Descriptors for rust-bitcoin
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:72 reviews, 13 commits, 13 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Maxim primarily focused on implementing and improving iterators within the Miniscript library. Their work included creating iterators for traversing Miniscript AST, and specific iterators for keys, key hashes, and combinations. These changes involved modifications to the `src/miniscript/iter.rs` file, and also included implementing several utility functions. The user also worked on the simplification and improvement of the descriptors.
bitcoinrust
rust-bitcoin/rust-secp256k1
Jan 2021 - Sep 2021
Rust language bindings for Bitcoin secp256k1 library.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:39 reviews, 15 commits, 17 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Maxim primarily focused on enhancing the `rust-secp256k1` library, which involves Bitcoin's secp256k1 cryptographic operations. They implemented new functionalities such as `KeyPair::from_secret_key` and `KeyPair::serialize_sec` for handling and serializing secret keys within the Schnorr signature scheme. Furthermore, the user updated the library's dependencies and refactored the code, including removing unnecessary arguments and implementing serde serialization for KeyPairs, to improve the library's structure and usability. These contributions directly support cryptographic operations within the Bitcoin ecosystem.
bitcoinrust-languagesecp256k1
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