# Taha Benesmael — CV

bd/product consultant — Vancouver, Canada

Contact: taha.benesmael@gmail.com
Website: https://tahabe.com
- X/Twitter: https://x.com/tahabe_
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tahabe/
- GitHub: https://github.com/taha-be

## Experience

- business development lead — code4rena · zellic (feb 2026 – may 2026): Drove early deal flow across Web3 protocols and closed initial engagements within 30 days. Built c4watch.xyz to aggregate audit data and sharpen BD strategy. Role concluded when Zellic wound down the Code4rena platform.
- technical product manager — chainsafe systems (may 2021 – may 2024): Led product for ChainBridge & developer experinece for Sygma protocols. Grew community to 400+ contributors and secured $100M+ in asset transfer partnerships.
- interaction designer — luminwire (sept 2019 – aug 2020): Redesigned financial UX onboarding, increasing completion rates by 38% and satisfaction by 74%.
- assistant champion, Innovation and entrepreneurship programs  — chang institute for entrepreneurship - beedie school of business   (jan 2019 – may 2020): Supported program communications and strategic initiatives for Simon Fraser University's flagship entrepreneurship center.
- product & design consultant  — Freelance (may 2024 – present): Partnering with ventures to build data-driven products. Initial design for XO.MARKET and led strategic pivot for Atheel to unlock $4M+ revenue stream.
- co-founder, business design — atheel technology (feb 2017 – may 2021): Co-founded GPS fleet tracking startup. Scaled operations to 14 cities and led successful acquisition in 2021.


- mar 2015 – dec 2017 — tedxmisrata (mar 2015 – dec 2017): Founded the first TEDx event in Misrata, Libya, earning the TEDxChange Prize from TED.
- national committee lead — united world colleges Libya (uwc) (nov 2015 – present): Leading a volunteer team providing educational scholarships. Achieved 95% program success rate and served on global governance committee.
- business design (co-op) — deshpande foundation- Sandbox Startups (sep 2018 – jan 2019): Developed brand guidelines and organized India's largest startup accelerator Makeathon (560+ registrations). Facilitated design thinking workshops for 210+ people.

## Education

- Bachelor of Business Administration : Interactive arts and technology with business joint major.  — Simon Fraser University (SFU), Vancouver, Canada (Sept 2016 – Dec 2020)
- International Baccalaureate (Bilingual) — United World College Maastricht (UWCM), Maastricht, The Netherlands (Sept 2013 – July 2015)

## Projects

- [C4WTCH](https://tahabe.com/projects): A live intelligence dashboard I built when joining the Code4rena and Zellic team to get up to speed on the smart contract security audit market. It automatically tracks competitions across major platforms (Code4rena, Sherlock, Immunefi, Cantina, and CodeHawks), giving me a real-time view of bounty pools, timelines, and competitor activity. I also used it to surface patterns from hundreds of past audits: common attack vectors, finding severity trends, and how the market has evolved. All the public data, in one place, updated continuously. (Web3, Security, Product Development, AI tooling , 2026)
- [planEd.xyz](https://planed.xyz/): A platform to help students find educational consultants. Currently in alpha phase.
 (Platform Design & Development, 2025)
- [atheel.live](https://atheel.live/): Reduced API integration time for B2B resellers from hours to 1 minute. Fully designed and built the platform end to end. (full stack & ai, 2025)
- [Sygma Protocol](https://tahabe.com/projects): Supported Developer Experience and UX maturity efforts designing explorer and nurturing community. (design and developer experience , 2024)
- [ChainBridge Hub Visual Brand](https://tahabe.com/projects): Comprehensive brand identity design for ChainBridge Hub. Established a visual language for the protocol's ecosystem, which then was fully turned into Sygma by the team. 

 (visual design, branding, 2023)
- [ChainBridge Protocol ](https://tahabe.com/projects): Modular Multi-Directional Blockchain Bridge interacting with Ethereum, Ethereum Classic, and Substrate chains. Led product management and developer advocacy. (technical product management, 2022)
- [Nodewatch](https://nodewatch.io/): Web-based UI displaying data collected by a devp2p crawler targeted at Eth2 nodes. Critical infrastructure for the Merge. (project management, 2022)
- [Lumenwire](https://tahabe.com/projects): Online money transfer platform serving underserved communities. Improved trustworthiness of the platform through UX redesign.

 (UX/UI & Fintech, 2020)
- [BrndU](https://tahabe.com/projects): A speculative design project exploring digital avatar influencers and the role they play in shaping today's beauty standards. (Speculative Design, 2020)
- [Atheel Technology](www.atheel.ly): Co-founded GPS fleet tracking startup scaling to 14 cities, leading to successful acquisition. (SaaS & IoT, 2017)
- [Taal](https://tahabe.com/projects): Co-founded an NGO  focused on community development and education. (Volunteering & Community, 2015)
- [TEDxMisrata](https://tahabe.com/projects): Founded the first TEDx event in Misrata, Libya, earning the TEDxChange Prize from TED. (Event Organization, 2015)
- [UWCLibya](https://ly.uwc.org/): Leading volunteer team providing educational scholarships to Libyan students. (Education Non-Profit, 2015)

## Skills

- Product Strategy & Vision
- Web3 & Blockchain
- IoT & Connected Devices
- Data Pipelines & AI
- UX/UI & Design Systems
- Agile & Scrum
- Go-to-Market Strategy
- Stakeholder Management
- speculative design
- rapid prototyping
- gtm
- product management
- project management