The team behind Kiln

Find out more about who we are

Meet the Leadership team:

Laszlo Szabo (@laszlo__szabo), CEO

Laszlo is the co-founder and CEO of Kiln, bringing staking as a service to all institutions.
Prior to Kiln, Laszlo was the co-founder of tech recruitment firm Skill Hunter. He began to take an interest in crypto in 2014.

Ernest Oppetit (@ernopp), CPO

Ernest is the cofounder and CPO of Kiln. Prior to Kiln, Ernest was a product manager at Improbable and Qubit. He's the most English of all the French, London is the city where he grew up.

Claire Wells, Chief Legal Officer

Claire joins Kiln from Coinbase where she was Associate General Counsel & Policy Lead. Prior to that, she was the Lead International Counsel at Plaid and Head of Legal & Business Affairs - EMEA at Circle. Claire trained and qualified at A&O (now A&O Shearman) and holds an MA from Cambridge University.

Robert Le, Head of Research

Robert joins Kiln as Research Lead to provide institutional clients with actionable insights on digital asset reward opportunities, leveraging his extensive fintech and crypto analysis background from PitchBook, PwC, and Silicon Valley Bank.

Meet the Engineering team:

Sébastien Rannou (@aimxhaisse),
Principal Engineer

Sébastien is Principal Engineer at Kiln. With more than 10 years of experience, he started his career at Scaleway and then at Google. He is now leading a team of 10+ engineers. Contributing to the Ethereum ecosystem, he has already written few articles in partnership with the Foundation.

Arno Simon (@arnosimo),
Senior Front-end Engineer

Arno is our Fullstack engineer at Kiln. He is passionate about creating exceptional user experiences and interfaces for our customers, leading our efforts on the Kiln various applications such as the Kiln Dashboard and Ledger dApp. In his commitment to giving back to the community, he has contributed by releasing open-source tools like Minitel and Bageth.

Rayane Bellazaar (@rayanebellazaar),
Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Rayane is one of our Site Reliability Engineers at Kiln. After gaining diverse experience as a DevOps consultant specializing in Kubernetes, he joined Kiln nearly two years ago. During his time here, he spearheaded the open-sourcing of our Cardano Validator Watcher.

John Mulreany (@Joarbs4),
Senior Protocol Specialist

After successful years at Fireblocks, John joins Kiln to leverage his expertise in L1/L2 protocols—analyzing, evaluating, and expanding partnerships with Kiln’s supported networks.

Théo Bolognini (@Chybrother),
Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Théo is a seasoned Site Reliability Engineer with extensive experience in designing, building, and optimizing high-performance cloud infrastructures. At Kiln, he leads the Solana validator infrastructure, ensuring maximum performance, resilience, and efficiency. His expertise in blockchain infrastructure and automation helps enhance SOL staking rewards for investors and partners, reinforcing Kiln’s position as a key player in the staking ecosystem.

Loïc Titren (@pwnh4),
Senior Blockchain Security Engineer

Loïc Titren is a product manager at Kiln. He is one of the very first employees since he joined Kiln before completing his studies at Epitech. Skillful, he started as a software engineer before supporting Ernest on product. He is now focusing on security as Senior Blockchain Security Engineer.

Meet the Product team:

Ana Mascarenhas (@ana_masca94),
Senior Product Manager

With experience in B2B blockchain infrastructure (3loom) and DeFi platforms (Keenest), Ana brings a deep expertise in scaling crypto products to our Kiln Dashboard and Kiln Connect products.

Martin Germain,
Senior Product Manager

Martin is a seasoned product manager with a track record of delivering customer-facing payment and staking products at Worldline and Ledger. He is now dedicated to making the Ethereum ecosystem more accessible for investors, developers, and end-users.

Meet the EVM team:

Iulian Rotaru (@m_rtimr),
Principal Engineer

Iulian has been actively involved in Ethereum and the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) since 2016 and has become one of the most prominent smart contract developers in the space.
Among his notable accomplishments, Iulian spearheaded the development of the Kiln On-Chain release, which is recognized as the first Ethereum white-labeled staking solution entirely managed on-chain. This innovative solution has gained significant traction and is now utilized by Ledger, with more than 50,000 ETH staked within just six months.

Gauthier Mayer (@gauthiermyr),
Smart Contract Engineer

Gauthier is a smart contract engineer at Kiln. He has been involved for several years in StakeDAO, a DeFi protocol for which he worked on subjects related to crypto derivatives (Options, DOVs, etc) and on the Curve Wars. He joined Kiln to focus on Ethereum staking and on Smart Contract Development. He is currently working on several subjects such as Ethereum Staking pooling, Validator Tokenization and smart-contract indexing and monitoring.

Mathieu Willay (@impermanentW),
Smart Contract Engineer

Mathieu is one of Kiln's smart contract engineers. While working in the renewable energy and photovoltaic sectors before joining Kiln, he fell into the Web3 rabbit hole. In order to accelerate his learning curve and contribute to this exciting field, he has actively contributed to open source codebases, and participated in multiple hackathons and CTFs since then.

Maxime Brugel (@0xaxxe),
Senior Smart Contract Engineer

Maxime is a Senior Smart Contract Engineer at Kiln. He has been actively involved in several DeFi projects since 2020 as a core developer and helped build multiple applications from smart contracts development to game theory mechanisms going through interoperability and security.He then joined Nested Finance and tackled innovative Web3 topics such as account abstraction and HyVM as soon as 2021. Maxime joined the team in 2023 to contribute to the Kiln OnChain suite of products.

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