Summary
Torsten Stüber is an engineering manager and blockchain technologist with 10+ years of experience building decentralized systems, currently leading efforts to bring Ethereum-compatible smart contracts to Polkadot at Parity Technologies. He previously co-founded and served as CTO of Pendulum and SatoshiPay, where he led research and engineering for Polkadot-based fiat rails, bridges, ZK proofs, AMMs and production blockchain infrastructure. With a PhD in computer science from TU Dresden and a background in machine learning and language processing, he blends academic rigor with hands-on systems design and team leadership. Torsten is a seasoned Rust and Substrate practitioner who ships low-level protocol and smart contract tooling and actively recruits builders for the space. He has a track record of founding and scaling engineering teams across startups and open ecosystems, from cryptographic messaging to payment rails. Pragmatic and research-minded, he focuses on making cross-chain developer experiences performant and portable—helping projects move between chains rather than start over.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Abitur - Mathematik Physik Englisch, Abitur - Mathematik Physik Englisch at Georg-Cantor-Gymnasium
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science at The University of Auckland
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.; in Germany: Dr. rer. nat.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.; in Germany: Dr. rer. nat.) Computer Science at Technische Universität Dresden
German, English, Spanish, Portuguese