Michalis Kargakis

Current Life

2026–: Working on onchain market making at Arrakis
2025–: Developing Partal, an all-in-one interface for digital art collectors (mainly to make my life as a collector easier).
2021–: Collecting art. Parts of my digital collection can be found on Partal and my physical collection on Artsy.
Forever: Building and maintaining open-source software on GitHub.

2023–2025: Executive Master in Art Market Studies at the University of Zurich; thesis delved into the topic of NFTs in art, developed through writings such as:
- Curating the Digital: Museums Embrace NFTs and the Conservation Challenge
- Artists in the age of NFTs featuring Ana Maria Caballero, Mitchell F. Chan, Osinachi, and Sam Spratt.
2023: Participated in competitive smart contract audits at Code4rena.
2022–2025: Built infrastructure for the carbon markets at Toucan Protocol.
2020–2021: Led the development of banking products at Sygnum Bank.
2015–2019: CoreKubernetes contributor; worked on developer experience (oc, kubectl), OpenShift Builds, DeploymentConfigs, Kubernetes workload APIs, Prow (Kubernetes-native CI system), OpenShift on Azure.
2014: Worked on btcsim, a Bitcoin transaction simulator.