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Nicholas Molnar

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CTO at XMTP Labs
📍 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Nicholas is the CTO at Ephemera, leveraging his extensive experience in building scalable, distributed systems. His career includes co-founding a fashion search engine, Wantering, and leading engineering teams at Brex and XMTP Labs, where he focused on decentralized messaging protocols. People who have worked with him describe him as creative and full of good ideas.

Outside of his direct professional sphere, Nicholas has expressed interest in Canadian national affairs, particularly the Department of National Defence. He is an alumnus of McGill University, a connection he maintains as an interest.

To ensure he had a team of committed individuals at Ephemera, he once offered all employees $25, 000 to quit.

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Experience
16 Years
Current Role
CTO
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Distributed Systems
A core focus of his career, from overhauling platforms at Clique Media to his current role. He is actively hiring exceptional distributed systems developers.
Decentralized Messaging
He helped build the foundational protocol for XMTP and is focused on bringing decentralized chat functionalities to Web3 applications.
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Career

Work history

5-2024
CTO
XMTP Labs
1-2022 - 5-2024
Staff Software Engineer
XMTP Labs
5-2019 - 1-2022
Senior Software Engineer
Brex
8-2015
Director, Application Development - Search & Tools
Clique Media Group
10-2011
Co-founder
Wantering
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Education
2004 - 2008
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McGill University
2000 - 2004
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Collingwood School
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