over 7 years experience building crypto native products
Recursive Studios was founded by Pranav and Kirsten to solve real-world problems using web3 tech. Now, they lead a team of engineers tackling the biggest challenges in crypto.
Pranav Singhal, Partner
Pranav is one of the Partners at Recursive, where he leads our engineering team and software architecture.
Pranav has spent the past few years helping multiple web3 startups launch products, protocol infrastructures, and decentralized applications. His work in the web 3 space since 2018 includes building decentralized exchanges, trading bots and agents, low-level infrastructure, and more. Pranav currently is an blockchian development educator at DBlock Ed, a developer education network.
In addition to his work in web3, Pranav is well known for his work building ERP solutions for large-scale businesses across India - helping them handle tens of millions worth of commerce.
Earlier in his career, Pranav was a senior engineer leading the Identity and Access Management team at Postman, where he contributed to critical security infrastructure. Alongside that, Pranav spent three years running a commodities trading firm in India, managing millions of dollars in daily trading volume for grains and other raw materials.
Beyond tech, while a student Pranav has contributed to award winning astrophysics research, having been invited by NASA to exhibit his work. His broad experience and interests give him a versatile approach to solving complex problems.
Pranav is passionate about building scalable platforms and leveraging decentralized technologies to create solutions that empower businesses and individuals.
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Kirsten Pomales, Partner
Kirsten is one of the Partners at Recursive, where she leads operations and product design.
Kirsten has spent the past few years leading the team behind TalentLayer, a venture-backed protocol infrastructure for marketplaces. While at TalentLayer, Kirsten grew a large open-source community, recieved substantial EU grant funding, and scaled to over 10K users.
Before TalentLayer, Kirsten led the IEEE's Blockchain Governance Working Group from 2018 to 2020, where over 200 open-source researchers contributed to research around the governance of decentralized protocols. During that time, she also consulted major enterprise blockchain projects including banking consortiums, blockchain as a service companies, and more. Kirsten has been featured as a speaker on blockchain infrastructure design by the European Commission, Fedex Institute, Consensys, and many others.
Aside from her work in the blockchain space, Kirsten has also previously founded multiple web 2 software companies in the marketplace and data aggregation sectors. Before getting into tech, Kirsten worked for 5 years in public policy in the US; lobbying on issues related to freedom of speech, cronyism, and energy regulation.
Kirsten cares about building decentralized tech and open-source software that challenges current paradigms; reducing power held by governments and corporations, and enabling people to find freedom through self-ownership.
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