Daren Tuzi

Daren Tuzi has a diverse work experience in the technology industry. Daren is currently the Founder & CEO of Eiger, where they design and builds scalable systems for interacting with on-chain environments. Prior to this, they worked at Equilibrium Labs as part of the engineering team from 2019 to 2022. Daren also founded Kiku in 2019 and served as the Founder until 2022. Daren co-founded Wone in 2015 and played a key role in building interoperable payment systems using cryptocurrency in Europe. Daren was also a co-founder and involved in product development at Prezella Oy from 2017 to 2018. Additionally, they gained experience as a Masters Student at Tampere University of Technology, specializing in signal processing, pervasive computing, and microchip production techniques. Daren conducted a thesis on improving Cryptonight GPU mining efficiency and also worked as a research assistant in the field of pervasive systems.

Daren Tuzi completed their Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in Computer Engineering at Middle East Technical University (Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi) from 2010 to 2014. Following that, they pursued a Master's degree in Computer Engineering at Tampere University of Technology 1965-2018 from 2014 to 2016.