Deniz Dalkilic
Updated August 2026
I'm a software engineer and blockchain architect based in London. My passion is building financial infrastructure — from enterprise systems to Layer 2 networks and lending protocols.
I currently work for DWF Labs leading a stealth blockchain project.
Before that I was CTO at Lumia, where I led the architecture of Lumia L2, a zkEVM rollup built on Polygon CDK, and served as a Polygon governance delegate. I co-founded Paribus, a cross-chain lending protocol, and Bounty0x, one of the first Web3 bounty platforms.
I spent a decade in enterprise engineering — Engineering Lead at Vodafone, Senior Software Engineer at Thomson Reuters, and Lead Engineer at Capgemini, building systems for clients including Royal Mail, Lloyd's Register and Pole Star. I hold an MSc in Computer Software Engineering from City, University of London. Before software, I spent my teens in the Tottenham Hotspur academy.