Farhaan Ali is an experienced technical lead specializing in smart contracts, currently leading the smart contract team at Maple since September 2022. Previously, Farhaan worked as a Smart Contract Engineer at Gro from September 2021 to September 2022, where responsibilities included designing and securing smart contracts for the Gro Protocol. Prior to that, Farhaan served as a Software Engineer at BrickVest, contributing to the replatforming of the Brickvest Marketplace with a new tech stack. Farhaan's leadership experience includes serving as Chief Financial Officer at AIESEC, managing a €2,000,000 budget, and as Country Manager, where success was achieved in delivering exchange products and conducting workshops. Farhaan holds an MSc in Business Analytics, Data Science from UCL and a degree in Full Stack Software Development from Makers.