Dominic Romanowski is an Australian software engineer and blockchain developer best known as a co‑founder of Derive Protocol, a decentralized finance (DeFi) project. His professional background spans blockchain engineering and backend development, with roles at technology firms and crypto‑native organizations, alongside contributor responsibilities connected to Derive’s ecosystem. ^{[1] [2]}​

Education

Romanowski studied computer science at the University of Sydney from 2014 to 2018, earning a bachelor’s degree in the field. Prior to university, he attended St Patrick’s College, Strathfield, graduating in 2013. ^[4]

Career

Romanowski began his career as a research assistant at the University of Sydney between 2016 and 2017, where he participated in a summer research program focused on Soufflé, a Datalog-to-C++ translation system.

In 2017, he worked as a blockchain engineer at Synthetix before joining BLOCK8, where he continued working on blockchain infrastructure and development until 2019. He later joined Canva as a backend engineer, working there from 2019 to 2021.

In 2021, Romanowski became a core contributor to the Lyra Foundation, which supported the development of the Lyra decentralized options trading protocol. The project later evolved into Derive Protocol, expanding its focus toward broader on-chain derivatives infrastructure. ^{[1] [2] [4]}