Michalis Kargakis

Current Life

2026–: Working on onchain market making at Arrakis
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.

2022–2025: Built onchain infrastructure for the carbon markets at Toucan Protocol.
2023–2025: Master in Art Market Studies at the University of Zurich; accompanied by writings such as Curating the Digital: Museums Embrace NFTs and the Conservation Challenge and 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.
2020–2021: Led the development of banking products at Sygnum Bank.
2015–2019: CoreKubernetes contributor; worked on developer experience (oc, kubectl), OpenShift and Kubernetes workload APIs, Prow (Kubernetes-native CI system), OpenShift on Azure.
2014: Worked on btcsim, a Bitcoin transaction simulator.