Team // Since 2019

People,
not marketing.

Seven years of continuous operation is a people thing before it is an infrastructure thing. Every validator decision at 01node traces back to a named engineer you can reach by email.

// 01 — Leadership

Founder and CTO.

Claudiu Nae

Claudiu Nae

Founder · Operator

Since 2019

Founded 01node in 2019. Background in IT service management and security. CISA-certified since 2004. Computer Science degree from Romanian-American University (2004). Running validator operations across 40+ PoS mainnets with zero slashing events.

Credentials
verifiedCISA (2004)
verifiedBSc Computer Science, Romanian-American Univ. (2004)
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Cristian Chirculescu

CTO · Infrastructure

Since 2019

Leads infrastructure engineering — datacenter architecture, BGP routing on AS211396, hardware security module (YubiHSM) operations, and the sub-second monitoring stack that keeps 40+ validators running.

// 02 — Engineering

The people keeping the nodes up.

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Adrian Turcitu

Network Engineer

BGP, peering, and network edge. Engineering the 20 Gbps+ transit + DDoS mitigation paths that feed the datacenters.

Marius Matei

Marius Matei

DevOps Engineer

Validator fleet automation, chain upgrades, ZFS tuning for enterprise NVMe storage, and incident response.

Gabriel Mateiciuc

Gabriel Mateiciuc

DevOps

Deployment pipelines, monitoring, alerting, and the sub-second eBPF probes that catch oracle-window jitter before it breaks a Chainlink heartbeat.

// 03 — Design, community, content

The people making it legible.

Silviu Pruteanu

Silviu Pruteanu

UI / UX Designer

Owns the 01.ro design system — typography, Material Design 3 tokens, dashboard layouts, and the visual language behind the trust-first brand.

Faith Braide

Faith Braide

Community · Lead Marketing

Community operations, ecosystem partnerships, and content strategy across the 40+ networks we validate.

Vivian Davids

Vivian Davids

Content Writer

Technical writing on staking, distributed validator technology, and ecosystem research.

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We hire infrastructure engineers, DevOps, and SRE who care about zero slashing more than they care about velocity.