At Bleeding.Technology we track over 100,000 web 3.0, NFT, DeFi & crypto startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top Canada based CTO’ operating in the Blockchain space. If you think a CTO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Chris Forrester
CTO of Shyft
Chris has served as Chief Technology Officer for Decentral, as a Core Developer for Interaxon and as a Developer for Meld Media. She possesses over 20 years of experience in Application Design/Administration, Object Oriented Programming and Agile Development Methodologies, covering technologies from GPU Assembly to high level Node JS Architectures. Chris has structured and developed systems using Blockchain and Smart Contract applications for clients and partners which include: TMX Group’s businesses TSX, TSX Venture, TSX Private Markets, TSX Trust, CDS, CDCC, NGX, Shorcan, Central Bank of Canada, IBM & Deloitte.
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About Shyft: Shyft’s blockchain-based network is building unbreachable data protection for industry.
Dieter Shirley
Founder & CTO of CryptoKitties
CTO and co-creator of CryptoKitties. A proud member of the Axiom Zen family!
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About CryptoKitties, Dapper Labs, Flow Blockchain: CryptoKitties is a game that enables users to collect and breed virtual cats on the blockchain.
Jay Addison
CTO of EventChain SmartTickets
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About EventChain SmartTickets: Eventchain is a Blockchain-powered ticket system that aims to solve problems of the ticketing industry
Jay Addison
CTO of EventChain SmartTickets
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About EventChain SmartTickets: Eventchain is a Blockchain-powered ticket system that aims to solve problems of the ticketing industry
Jagdeep Sidhu
CTO & Co-Founder of Blockchain Foundry Inc.
Jag Sidhu is the CTO of Blockchain Foundry and a co-founder of the Syscoin project, a decentralized cryptocurrency, as well as its current lead developer. As an expert in blockchain technology Jag also specializes in machine learning, artificial intelligence, client/server development and distributed systems with nearly 20 years of software development experience. Jag holds a bachelor of Technology, Computer Science, from the British Columbia Institute of Technology.
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About Blockchain Foundry Inc.: Blockchain Foundry is a blockchain software development company.
Scott Llewellyn
Co-Founder & CTO of FreeBitcoins.com
Founder and creator of the cryptocurrencies Clamcoin (CLAMS) and Digitbyte. CLAMS and Digitbyte had a market cap that exceeded $1.2 billion USD in 2017. Scott is considered one of the top expert in blockchain technology and cryptocurrency wallets.
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About FreeBitcoins.com: We are a Universal Income Company (UIC).
Matt Masiar
CTO of iComply Investor Services Inc.
Matt is CTO at iComply Investor Services Inc.
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About iComply Investor Services Inc.: iComply Investor Services (iComply) is an award-winning software company focused on reducing regulatory friction in financial markets.
Earl Mai
CTO, Co-Founder of ePIC Blockchain Inc.
Earl is the CTO of ePIC Blockchain. He has 16 years of experience designing and architecting industry leading products that have shipped over 50 million units such as 10 generations of AMD GPUs and 6 generations of game consoles including the new Playstation 5. Under his leadership at ePIC, the team has completed 2 blockchain ASICs featuring industry leading performance and efficiency. Both ASICs are in production based on first silicon (no revisions).
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About ePIC Blockchain Inc.: Blockchain Semiconductors and Systems for Cryptocurrency and Enterprise Applications
Sorin Stoian
Co-founder and CTO of Swarmio Media
Sorin is a creative and result-driven IT architect with more than 20 years of experience in IT infrastructure, Cloud, Software-Defined Technologies, Agile Software Development, Gaming Network Architectures and IT Security. Sorin has wide experience in conceptualizing and developing revenue-generating cloud infrastructure management solutions. He has worked in senior capacity for major global brands such as IBM, Bell, Nokia, Scotiabank and Vodafone.
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About Swarmio Media: Ubique Networks is an innovative technology company delivering a network intelligence and optimization platform
Chiron Bramberger
CTO & Co founder of Adbank
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About Adbank: Adbank is a revolutionary ad platform with total transparency of payments between advertisers and publishers.
John-Alan Simmons
CTO, Co-Founder of Source
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About Source: Source is an interoperable data management layer of Web3.
Noah Marconi
CTO of Tag Innovation
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About Tag Innovation: Tag is a Loyalty Innovation Lab supporting loyalty programs and their partners.
Peter Bodorik
CTO of Peer Ledger
Peter Bodorik is Chief Technology Officer at Peer Ledger. Very detail-oriented and a great team player, he is also a Professor at the Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University where he has held various positions, such as Director of Master of Electronic Commerce, Associate Dean Academic, and Associate Dean Research (Acting). He has published over seventy refereed papers in conference and journal venues with concentration on managing data in distributed systems, in which he focused on efficient mechanisms for transaction management and querying; electronic commerce, with concentration on e-commerce models and bench marking; and privacy with concentration on models and tools to support privacy on the client and server sides. He has received and participated in many grants and awards from NSERC, CFI, and industry. Over eighty graduate students have successfully completed their studies under Dr. Bodorik’s (co)supervision at both the masters and PhD levels. He enjoys working with disruptive technologies, such as blockchain.
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About Peer Ledger: Peer Ledger is the maker of the MIMOSI Blockchain SaaS for traceability and responsible sourcing
Matthew Black
Co-Founder and CTO of Atomic Loans
Matthew Black is the Co-Founder and CTO of Atomic Finance.
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About Atomic Loans: Protocol for bitcoin and crypto-backed loans on your terms, without middlemen.
Darrell O’Donnell
CTO of Bonifii
Darrell O’Donnell is the chief technical officer at CULedger.
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About Bonifii: Bonifii operates as a credit union service organization focusing on the credential exchange, information exchange, and value exchange.
Brendan Koch
Co-Founder and CTO of TikTiks
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About TikTiks: TikTiks is a transparent secondary ticket market for live entertainment events across North America.
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