Mariano Sorgente
Partner at Andreessen Horowitz
Mariano Sorgente
Partner at Andreessen Horowitz
Brooklyn, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Investment Partner
2022 - 2024
Crypto investment team.
Engineering Manager
2022 - 2022
Leading the blockchain team at Chia.
Senior Software Engineer
2018 - 2022
Developed the Chia consensus algorithm codebase and peer to peer network from scratch. The network has hundreds of thousands of nodes (more than any other chain) and 20+ EiB active as of June 2023. Implemented modern cryptography primitives including BLS signatures, verifiable delay functions and proofs of space, and protocols such as Chia's secure pooling protocol.
Engineering Lead
2018 - 2018
Engineering lead for frontend development at Token. Involved in developing and designing a secure payment system for banks, merchants, and end users. Work includes bank integrations, product & project management, system architecture, mobile and web development, security, and presales.
Software Engineer
2015 - 2018
Worked on engineering, design and architecture of the system, and product.
Initial Contributor and Advisor
2018 - 2018
Worked on crypto-economics, protocol design, and brainstorming ideas for a cryptocurrency platform.
Research Assistant Virtual Reality Lab
2015 - 2015
Use Vizard and python to explore virtual reality applications, specifically with regards to human interaction in VR.
Software Development Engineer Intern
2014 - 2014
Worked as an SDE on AWS networking. Used docker virtualization to improve the build process of an operating system, and created an OS-image repository to store finished build images and partial build states.