Maxim Gaina
Solving real-world problems, moving real-world competencies. Simplicity & effectiveness are the Best Technologies_
Experience
CTO & Agentic Orchestrator
Chainlead
Milan, Italy
Building an AI Ecosystem of Software as a Service – Designed and deployed knowledge base ingestion pipelines for structured and unstructured documents, powering extraction and data structuring for business clients; – Built agentic orchestration layer coordinating multi-step LLM workflows with tool use, retrieval and autonomous decision-making; –RAG-based AI SaaS delivered to clients; helping Italian agencies reach their full potential through LLM-powered document and data services; – Providing full-stack freelance competencies to projects with supervision; – Automated Trading Terminal with Algo Builder and Execution engine (Hyperliquid).
Portfolio CTO, Technologist & Strategist
DappCreator SRL
Milan, Italy
Kick-started ecosystem of complementary software projects – Architecture and Requirement Building for multiple projects by Supervising Cross-project independent Designs; Cross-Project dependency orchestration; – Building Teams for each initiative; – Responsible for Strategic Technology Manifesto & Individual Whitepapers.
Web3 CTO
Reasoned Art SB SRL
Milan, Italy
Digital Art and Cultural Heritage (currently expanding in Asia) – Built complex smart contract architectures; went live with Marketplace; – Delivered Soul-bound NFTs for collaboration with BVLGARI before it became mainstream; – First-of-its-kind O(1) programmable NFT drop collaborating with Chainlink (Monuverse); – Directed Dev Agencies across LatAm and Europe. Link: Reasoned Art
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer
monAI Finance
Parma, Italy
Leveraging PSD2 EU Directives for Credit Score assignment to SMEs and performing automated Match-Making with Lenders – Developed MVP with V1 SME Credit Scoring Algorithm – data extraction from financial APIs, structured scoring output, went live; – Directed fintech development company from India; worked with the now biggest Accelerator in Italy (Digital Magics). Link: Digital Magics Accelerator
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer
COVER Initiative
Rome, Italy
Automating legal document analysis and contract-to-smart-contract transformation flows for Law Firms – Key clauses extraction from legal contracts and documents and structuring them into machine-readable formats; – Filed national patent for the Smart Legal Contract transformation process; – Institution-grade engagement: Italian Ministry of Justice & the Observatory for Alternative Dispute Resolution Systems; – Held technology lessons for 20 lawyers per class. Link: Italian Deputy Chamber
Chief Blockchain Officer
Habits Ltd
Milan, Italy
The world’s first augmented reality fashion e-commerce, powered by blockchain – Created their Architecture and Token Economy; – Maintained Internal sit-reps and instructed developers on technology adoption. Link: Andrea Santi
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer
Project "Made In Italy"
Parma, Italy
Blockchain-based provenance and traceability for Catering – First post-graduation startup and related responsibilities; Developed Stellar Network and Ethereum-based MVP.
Founder
Tactical Post AI-first SaaS
United States
Building an AI-Powered Content Creation SaaS Platform – Architected end-to-end LLM pipeline: content ingestion, generation, and structured output delivery at daily cadence; – Enhanced client search visibility through tailored SEO strategies and geo-cultural targeting; – Implemented product content management with API integration, multimedia processing and automated publishing. Link: tacticalpost.ai
Education
Alma Mater Studiorum – Universita di Bologna
M.Sc. Computer Science
Deep Learning for NLP and Blockchain Protocols – Applied Deep Neural Networks to Italian Natural Language Processing in 2017 – building Bidirectional LSTM models for prosodic prominence detection in continuous Italian speech (sequence-to-sequence syllable classification with Keras/TensorFlow), a full year before GPT-1; – Reinforcement Learning: Deep Q-Network analysis on Atari environments (Torch/Lua); – Distributed Deep Learning: multi-node TensorFlow training across 6-machine clusters (parameter server architecture); –Thesis: “Blockchain and Smart Contracts: Fundamentals and a Decentralised Application Case- Study.”
Universita degli Studi di Parma
B.Sc. Computer Science
Systems Programming and Thread Safety –Worked for a University spin-off transforming the Parma Polyhedra Library into its thread-safe evolution, enforcing the C++11 standard; – Thesis: “A Thread Safety Case Study: Parma Polyhedra Library.”