Tom Niermann
Tom Niermann is the co-founder and chief technology officer of OpenTradeOpenTradeOpenTrade is a London-based stablecoin yield infrastructure company. It provides fintechs, exchanges and digital wallets with asset access, vaults, interfaces and operations for treasury management and embedded yield products.Open the full entry, a stablecoin yield infrastructure company. He holds a Ph.D. in computer engineering from the University of Illinois and previously served as vice president of products at the insurtech company Omniscience and as a software engineering manager at MetaMetaMeta (Meta Platforms, Inc.) is a publicly listed American technology company, renamed from Facebook in 2021, that operates social communication, digital advertising, virtual reality, smart glasses and artificial intelligence businesses.Open the full entry.
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Key facts
2019–2023Omniscience and Meta
In November 2019 the insurtech company Omniscience recruited him as vice president of products.[1]
Before co-founding OpenTrade in 2023, he most recently worked at Meta.[2]
His title at Meta was software engineering manager.[3]
February 2023Co-founding OpenTrade
In February 2023 he co-founded OpenTrade as chief technology officer.[2]
May 2026Funding and Expansion Plans
In May 2026 OpenTrade announced $17 million in strategic funding and planned to expand its permissionless protocol layer and Curation+ vault service and grow its engineering team.[4]
August 2026SOC 2 Attestation
In August 2026 OpenTrade announced a SOC 2 Type 1 attestation, with a Type 2 examination still in preparation.[5]
Education: University of Illinois
He studied at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.[3]
He holds a Ph.D. in computer engineering from the University of Illinois.[6]
Other Experience: TradeIX
He previously worked at TradeIX.[2]
Sources
- Insurtech Omniscience recruits VP engineering and VP of product (opens in a new window)
- Sutter launches decentralised finance platform OpenTrade (opens in a new window)
- Tom Niermann (opens in a new window)
- OpenTrade secures $17M in strategic funding to scale its stablecoin yield infrastructure (opens in a new window)
- OpenTrade Has Achieved SOC 2 Type 1 Attestation (opens in a new window)
- About • OpenTrade (opens in a new window)