Who is Abelian?

Jordan Cumming
Abelian
Published in
4 min readAug 23, 2018

As many Abelian followers already know, Abelian is trying to implement AI technology into crypto-mining while providing a decentralized exchange for miners and traders. Two complimentary ideas, but also somewhat complicated in characteristic. The combination of both is actually what sets Abelian apart from the rest of its competitors. The decentralization aspect of blockchain encryption technology helps to provide greater security for digital assets. With the addition to an automatable exchange system, Abelian provides miners with a comprehensive platform that helps facilitate mined tokens into long-term token holdings.

Abelian is based out of Vancouver, Canada — an emerging giant in both general technology and the Blockchain scene. Vancouver is becoming the equivalent to Silicon Valley in Canada. Some of the more well-known Blockchain projects have originated here. Consequently, there has been a flood and evident concentration of exceptional talent. This makes team creation a bit easier and also drives more competition for these companies to build powerful and exceptional projects.

There are a lot of great ideas out there with a lot of ambition, yet everyone already knows that with an ambitious project you need a talented team. Abelian is no exception. Here is a brief overview of the key players committed to Abelian’s solution to crypto-mining.

Starting from the top we have Michael Beard, CEO of Abelian. Michael is the relationship builder, creating and maintaining long-lasting relationships with current and prospective clients. When building these relationships, he leverages his vast experience in both leadership and technology. His unique combination of skills has fostered his rather unconventional and innovative train of thought — an attribute that has proven to be successful.

Next, we have John Cooper, COO. John is the Economist of the company, bringing his Master’s in Economics in full value to the business development of Abelian. John also has a proven background, growing a start-up from a 4-person business and $200k annual revenue to a 20-person business bringing in $3 million — in under 2 years. More importantly, John helped build his first Bitcoin mining rig in 2011! Needless to say, he has been involved in the crypto-mining space for quite some time.

Since Abelian is a technology firm, one of the most important team members is the CTO. Casim Kargi is that important person. Casim has extensive experience in a variety of technology fields, including but not limited to: network management software, image processing & deep neural network solutions and web & SAAS based projects. With more than 15 years of experience, Casim’s full stack software development and software management skills are a huge asset to the Abelian project. His current focus is on blockchain technologies and react.js based applications.

When you think of state-of-the-art technologies, companies such as Lockheed Martin and Boeing are commonly talked about. Celal Unver, Backend developer, can proudly say that he worked for both of those companies. He performed a large range of tasks spanning from negotiating contracts to performing on-site testing. Currently, his the main interests include Blockchain technologies as well as self-driving cars. Mehmet Tefon is another one of Abelians Backend Developers — also with an incredibly impressive resume. Mehmet has more than 20 years of experience focused on IT and telecommunications. He has large-scale business experience being a key member of new software development used by thousands of individuals. His current area of research is in the different mining and pool technologies.

Chendong Li is Abelian’s Data Scientist. Chendong brings a Bachelor of Physics and a Master’s in economics to the table. He has a proven history of delivering time series predictions for more than 5 years and has developed comprehensive skills of statistical modeling, business intelligence, and machine learning. Chendong has a wide range of talents as an analyst. From short-term energy to long-term strategic forecasting, Chendong has the technical solutions to build predictive analyses in the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry.

Every tech-firm needs to have a talented UI developer, and Emrah Guner is no slouch. With over 10 years of software development, Emrah has been working on projects related to frontend technologies like AngularJS, React, Javascript / TypeScript, HTML, CSS, backend technologies like Struts, Spring, Node.Js and databases (Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL). While working with Abelian he is also working towards a Ph.D. in Computer Sciences.

As many individuals in the Blockchain industry started as cryptocurrency traders, Steven Tram is no different. Steven is the product manager at Abelian. His background stems as a technical HR within the banking sector. His main contributions include enhancing both the system and business process. His main focus for Abelian is cryptocurrency research which is highly valuable for the Abelian mining and exchange platform.

Abelian currently has 2 highly successful and determined advisors. Carlos Cabrera has a couple of ICOs including Swissborg and Cryptobuyer. He is a financial specialist who previously worked with CIBC and with Egla Communications. Peter Gregory is the other advisor who brings experience in digital assets, deal flow, and wealth management. Peter enjoys bringing creative and innovative ideas to market by educating complicated products to everyone.

As an emerging front-runner in the Vancouver tech scene, the Abelian team represents the necessary talent needed when developing Blockchain products. An AI-implemented decentralized mining and exchange platform is an ambitious project, yet the Abelian team not only has the talent, they have the confidence which is essential for future success. While having access to what Vancouver can provide, Abelian is set for success.

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