Erick de Moura (Cartesi): "Blockchain development is hard, it’s on us to make it easier"

03.09.2024
Erick de Moura (Cartesi): "Blockchain development is hard, it’s on us to make it easier"
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In an opinion piece, the co-founder of Cartesi, which is a second-layer protocol on Ethereum (Layer 2), believes that the industry needs to collaborate more to make the work of blockchain developers easier.

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Erick de Moura

Erick de Moura is Co-Founder and CEO of Cartesi, a project building an operating system for decentralized applications that enables complex computations to run in a Linux environment outside the blockchain while maintaining decentralization. He has dedicated over 20 years to the software industry, with experience across fintech, healthtech, and e-commerce verticals.

Prior to Cartesi, which he co-founded in January 2018, de Moura worked as a software engineer and tech lead at Arizona Bay from 2008 to 2018. Concurrently, from 2009 to 2015, he served as Engineer and Team Lead at WebRadar, where he acted as software architect, managed development processes, and helped build systems for the telecom and transport markets, including big data and analytics systems used by major South American telecom companies. He has also held roles at M4U, WiNGS Telecom, View Engenharia e Automação Ltda, Tecgraf / PUC-Rio, and K2 Sistemas. He became an Expert at the EU Blockchain Observatory and Forum. De Moura holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, completed between 1995 and 2000, and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UCLA, pursued between 1997 and 1998.

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