Serg Lotz
Europe, CET

About
16+ yrs in product/UX. Founder mode since 2021, shipping (first) blockchain and (now) AI-enabled products. Led various international dev teams and won global hackathons year-after-year.
Work Experience
Anyrand VRF
Co-Founder
Jan 2024 - Apr 2025
Verifiable random number generator for EVM-compatible networks, built on drand randomness beacon. Led a team of 5, focusing on Business and Product. Collaborated closely with Scroll L2 network.
Rematiq
Freelance Product Designer
Feb 2024 - Nov 2024
AI-powered (LLM) web app to analyze regulatory requirements documents of complex medical devices. First product designer on the team. Iterated product raised €5.4 million in a seed funding round.
Fairy, Inc.
Co-Founder
Nov 2022 - Dec 2024
Provably fair and verifiably random raffling contracts and infrastructure. Powering the Ethereum Foundation Devcon ticket raffle.
ETHMunich
Founder
Oct 2022 - Mar 2024
Biggest Ethereum Hackathon in Bavaria. Over 340 hacker applications and 192+ on-site attendees. Managed a team of 25 people.
Highsnobiety
Freelance UX/Product Consultant
Apr 2022 - Feb 2023
Consulted various brand NFT projects. Managed product release and UX for the 'notinparis' NFT collection. Sold out under 1 hour.
Cashrain
Freelance Product Lead
Dec 2021 - Apr 2023
Platform for streamers to create communities and reward their fans with crypto for social media activities.
Huddle01
Product Strategist
Oct 2021 - Dec 2022
Web3 video meetings, decentralized RTC infrastructure (DePIN). Successfully repositioned the product to gain traction, users and VC funding.
PretzelDAO
Founder
Jul 2021 - Mar 2024
Munich's largest Web3 developer community. Built and scaled the community to over 230 members.
Technical University of Munich
Research Assistant Blockchain
Apr 2021 - Sep 2021
Created a workshop series about NFTs with over 100 participants. Worked closely with Prof. Welpe on creation of the MunichNFT platform.
Gitcoin
KERNEL KB3 Fellow
May 2021 - Jul 2021
Built Metacards project as part of the program. Hacker at the ETHGlobal NFTHack and Web3 Weekend, managed teams of 5 each time.
MeetAnyway
Entrepreneur in Residence
Nov 2020 - Jan 2021
Online video event platform. Worked on growth and product expansion. Helped the team to get into YC W21.
Mobimeo
Product Lead
Mar 2019 - Jan 2020
Urban mobility platform. Collaboration with Boston Consulting Group and Deutsche Bahn. Managed 2 workstreams (iOS and Android) with up to 6 developers each.
SmileBack
Product Lead
Oct 2017 - Jan 2019
B2B SaaS with a focus on customer satisfaction CSAT and net promoter score NPS in ticketing system environments. Designed and rebuilt the entire platform frontend from scratch. Sold to ConnectWise.
UEBERBIT GmbH
Design Engineer
Jul 2013 - Aug 2017
Web development agency. My projects focused on mobility (RNV, VRN, DB Schenker) and media publishing platforms (RKW, Burda Media). Web projects for mobility companies with 100k+ monthly visitors were highly performant and met all usability/ISO standards.
Dots United GmbH
Frontend Developer
Aug 2011 - Jul 2013
Web development agency with a focus on WordPress.
Education
CDTM
2020 - 2022
Honours Degree, Technology Management
LMU Munich
2019 - 2021
Master of Science, Management and Digital Technologies (MMT)
Cooperative State University Mannheim
2011 - 2013
Bachelor of Arts, Digital Media (Media Informatics)
Languages
🇬🇧 English (fluent)
🇩🇪 German (native)
🇷🇺 Russian (native)
🇪🇸 Spanish (Basic)
Skills
Product Strategy
Product Design
User Experience (UX)
Stakeholder Management
Leadership and Negotiation
Community Building
Growth Strategy
Market Research
Competitive Analysis
Roadmapping
Scrum
Agile Development
Lean Startup
Design Systems
Technical Knowledge
UX/UI
Figma
Sketch
Photoshop
shadcn/ui
Tailwind CSS
Web Performance Optimization
PageSpeed Insights
Google Lighthouse
Rapid Web Prototyping
JavaScript
React
Typescript
Next.js
Vercel
Git
CI/CD
Solidity
ERC721/1155
Projects
🏴☠️ Rage Against EU
rageagainst.eu
Install and run any open-source DeFi interface on your own computer.
🏆 Winner ETHBerlin
Solidity
Cypherpunk
🎲 zkVRF
ethglobal.comshowcase/zkvrf-rt1d2
A novel, ZKP-enabled method to generate provably fair and verifiable random numbers.
🏆 Winner ETHOnline
ZKPs
zk-SNARKs
Scroll zkEVM
Aztec Noir DSL
Solidity
😇 RNGesus
app.buidlbox.ioprojects/rngesus
RNGesus is the saviour to all EVM networks that lack infrastructure to provide verifiable randomness.
🏆 Winner ETHDenver
zk-SNARKs
BLS12-381
Scroll zkEVM
drand
🎭 rsociety
devfolio.coprojects/rsociety-hack-ethberlin-and-receive-dai-d240
Smart contract and a guerilla campaign to redistribute the entire prize pool.
🏆 Winner ETHBerlin
Solidity
Optimism
Social Hacking
🧚 Fairymint
ethglobal.comshowcase/fairymint-the-fair-mint-raffle-j09u9
Fully on-chain allowlist raffle system
ETHAmsterdam Hackathon
ChainlinkVRF
Lens Protocol
🎴 Metacards
ethglobal.comshowcase/metacards-kxy3w
Platform where people can mint Trading Card Sets of themselves as NFTs with a few clicks.
ETHGlobal Hackathon
React
ERC-721
Solidity