Maria Elisa Lleno currently serves as a People Officer, Technical Recruitment and Community Building Specialist, and Technical Recruiter at Nethermind, where responsibilities include identifying engineering talent globally for the blockchain ecosystem since April 2022. Previously, Maria held an internship at the Home Development Mutual Fund (Pag-IBIG Fund) in May 2019. Maria completed a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering at the Polytechnic University of the Philippines from 2019 to 2023 and studied Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics at the University of Makati from June 2017 to June 2019.