Sebastian Bode is the VP of Engineering at the Cardano Foundation where he leads the Engineering, Research and Product teams. Applying his previous experience in IT across financial services, the automotive and aeronautics industry, as well as the research sector, he drives development both internally within the Cardano Foundation, in collaboration with external development companies and developer initiatives in the wider ecosystem, thriving to nurture adoption of public permissionless blockchain for enterprises, the public sector and native Web3 products. Sebastian holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering and Computer Sciences and has been apart from his professional career contributed to several open source software development initiatives.