Diego Prats

Experience

Nexus

VP of Engineering

2025 - Present (over 1 year)

- Advancing verifiable computing from easiest use case (crypto) to hardest (AI) and all in between from zkVM (https://github.com/nexus-xyz/nexus-zkvm) to Prover Network (https://app.nexus.xyz/)
-... more Promoted from Principal Engineer to VP of Engineering at Lightspeed-funded Series A startup for verifiable computing and ZK cryptography
- Work on the 

Stack: Rust, GCP, TiDB, Next.js, React, Postgres, ZK, Solidity, Web3, Ethereum

VP of Engineering

2025 - Present (over 1 year)

Member of Technical Staff

2024 - 2025 (5 months)

Started as IC engineer focused on verifiable computing (eg Zero Knowledge) such as ZK-based ML/AI. Rust ?  and Typescript stack.

DFINITY

Principal, R&D

2022 - 2024 (almost 3 years)

- Early engineer at A16Z-funded startup and helped launch a top-15 Layer 1 blockchain.
- Promoted to Principal to focus on special R&D projects reporting directly to... more CTO. Worked on tricky product/engineering problems and 0 to 1 projects in AI and Crypto
- Helped grow the network to over $4B market cap and company from <20→300+ employees
- Led multiple teams across the stack: Consensus, P2P/Networking, UX, Design, and Developer 
 
Stack: Typescript, Node.js, Rust, Python, Motoko.

Director of Engineering

2019 - 2022 (almost 3 years)

Teams reporting to me:

- Consensus Protocol team
- P2P/Networking team
- UX team
- Developer Experience team

* I led teams (in US and Switzerland) of... more world-class experts in cryptography, distributed systems, systems engineering, and networking.

Engineering Manager

2020 (8 months)

Manager of the P2P Networking protocol team. The team is composed of system engineers, cryptographers, and distributed systems experts. Main stack: Rust.

Engineering Manager

2020 (8 months)

Manager of the Consensus protocol team. The team is composed of system engineers, cryptographers, and distributed systems experts. Main stack: Rust.

Engineering Manager

2018 - 2019 (9 months)

- Started the SDK team to work on developer experiences, such as our Rust and Motoko SDK and public-facing API. 
- managed the Motoko language and compiler team (language... more built and designed for WebAssembly) 
- Started our developer partner programs (and team)

Main stack: JS, React, Node, Motoko, Rust, Python

Overnight

VP Product Engineering 2016 - 2018 (over 2 years)

spire.io

Founder

Border Stylo

Founder

iKnode

Advisor

Travlur

Advisor

Founder

spire.io, Border Stylo

Employee

Overnight, DFINITY, Nexus

Advisor

Travlur, iKnode

Projects

Overnight - Book Last-minute Stays with Local Hosts on the App Store

Book Last-minute Stays with Local Hosts on the App Store

Growth, Javascript, Email Marketing, Facebook · Helped grow users & bookings from launch.

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With Asher Hunt, Ethan Kravitz, Artia Moghbel, Lindsay Fisher, Erik Reinert, Joey Serxner, Andres 'Andy' Schabelman

Education

About

Achievements

I am a former founder so I bring my founder mindset to anything I do. My super power is that I can dive deep into CS and engineering domains, work in production systems hand-on, build high-performing teams and recruit the best in the world. I have done this in: AI, distributed systems, formal verification, compilers, infrastructure, and cryptography.

Describe the most impressive thing you've done.

Skills

Javascript Node.js MongoDB Redis Frontend Development Python Rust Generative AI Docker HTML Swift SQL PostgreSQL Ruby Blockchain MySQL iOS noSQL TypeScript AWS AI React.js Cryptography Rust

Locations

Los Angeles Silicon Valley Mexico East Los Angeles San Francisco California

Diego Prats

VP Engineering @Nexus Ex Principal and Director at @DFINITY ex @Harvard @USC