founder

Mehmet Huseyin Kafadar

Co-founder & CTOSan Francisco Bay Area

Co-founder and CTO of Reven. Previously led custody and then AI enablement at Paribu, after building its wallet, staking and custody systems.

Background

Mehmet is Reven’s co-founder and CTO and leads its engineering. He has been a software engineer since 2016 and has built blockchain infrastructure since 2018.

Before Reven he spent six and a half years at Paribu, the Turkish crypto asset platform. As a senior and then lead blockchain developer he built wallets for Ethereum, Bitcoin, Solana and other networks, staking and cold-wallet infrastructure, transaction monitoring, and MPC-based custody, and led a multi-regional team of more than twenty. He then directed Paribu’s custody organization, six cross-functional teams of about fifty people, and represented Paribu Custody at international conferences. His last role there was AI Enablement Director, helping teams turn AI from individual experiments into a repeatable way of working.

Earlier he was a blockchain developer at TokenSuite and DijitalPara, taught web development at Re:Coded, and worked as a self-employed back-end developer.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in Medicine from Namik Kemal University and a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Anadolu University, which he studied alongside it.

Career

Reven

San Francisco Bay Area · Remote
1. Co-founder & CTO
  
  Jun 2026 – Present
Paribu

Jan 2020 – Jun 2026
1. AI Enablement Director
  
  Dec 2025 – Jun 2026
  
  Led Paribu’s AI enablement: with product, engineering and business teams, found the workflows where AI helps and built programs so teams could work with it themselves. Spoke about the journey at ALIVE 26.
2. Director, Custody
  
  Oct 2023 – Nov 2025 · Istanbul
  
  Led crypto custody built on MPC, ECDSA and EdDSA. Directed six cross-functional teams of about fifty people, aligning engineering with standards such as ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II, and represented Paribu Custody at global conferences.
3. Lead Blockchain Developer
  
  Nov 2021 – Sep 2023
  
  Led a multi-regional team of more than twenty. Built wallets for Ethereum, Bitcoin, Solana and other networks, staking wallets with cold-wallet capabilities, transaction and block monitoring, and self-custody and custodial MPC storage.
4. Senior Blockchain Developer
  
  Jan 2020 – Oct 2021
TokenSuite

Remote
1. Blockchain Developer
  
  Aug 2018 – Dec 2019
Re:Coded

Gaziantep
1. Web Development Instructor
  
  Mar 2019 – Jul 2019
DijitalPara

Istanbul
1. Blockchain & Smart Contract Developer
  
  May 2018 – Aug 2018
Self-employed

Remote
1. Back-end Developer
  
  Jan 2016 – Apr 2018

Education

2012 – 2018

Namik Kemal University

Bachelor’s degree, Medicine
2013 – 2017

Anadolu University

Bachelor’s degree, Business Administration and Management