Fabio Berger

Fallibilist, optimist, technologist, nomad. I value first principles thinking and those who work hard to deploy novel solutions to hard problems. Solving problems is the only way we move humanity forward.

I am currently Head of Platform Engineering at Phantom, where I lead four engineering teams building out Phantom’s strategic engineering foundations. My teams have built a trusted execution environment (TEE)-based key management system (KMS) for seedless onboarding, a real-time data streaming platform for financial data, an authentication system that maintains self-custody, and more.

I see startups as a high leverage way to deploy solutions to important problems at scale. Previously, I co-founded Blowfish, a blockchain cybersecurity company that provided transaction scanning and simulation for 43 wallets across the Solana and EVM ecosystems and was acquired by Phantom. Before that, I helped deploy borderless, inclusive exchange infrastructure at 0x, growing the team from 3 to 38, and exchange volume to over $1B. Before that I was working to empower non-programmers through accessible software creation tools as the 6th engineer at Airtable. While still in college I built a used textbook marketplace to help save students money (ShelfRelief), an investment education platform to help people make smarter investment decisions (WealthLift) and a cartoon creation mobile app to lower the barriers to cartoon creation (Dubbit).