Damijan Merlak

Damijan Merlak possessed a highly rigorous, deeply technical background in advanced software engineering and complex financial systems development. Having intensely coded commercial platforms for massive regional media and tech companies while still at university, this incredibly strong background in building highly robust, scalable digital architecture provided the exact technical mastery required to successfully engineer the Bitstamp exchange.

Damijan Merlak is a highly brilliant Slovenian software developer, serial entrepreneur, and the massively influential co-founder of the historic Bitstamp cryptocurrency exchange. Operating as a deeply talented programmer with a massive early interest in digital assets, Merlak aggressively partnered with Nejc Kodrič in 2011 to launch a highly secure, European-focused alternative to the deeply flawed Mt. Gox platform. Executing with incredible technical precision, he completely architected the foundational software infrastructure that allowed Bitstamp to rapidly scale into one of the absolute most trusted, globally dominant cryptocurrency exchanges in the world. Following the highly lucrative, multi-million dollar acquisition of the platform by NXMH in 2018, Merlak successfully leveraged his massive capital to aggressively launch multiple disruptive energy and blockchain startups.