Eleftherios Diakomichalis

Eleftherios Diakomichalis is a technology entrepreneur and data science professional with a background in analytics, machine learning, data engineering, and software development. He is a co-founder of Monadic, where he works on Radicle and Drips, and previously led data science and engineering teams at SoundCloud.  ^[5]

Education

Diakomichalis graduated from Athens University of Economics and Business with a BSc in Statistics in 2008. ^[1]

Career

Diakomichalis worked in product analytics at Microcat SA, a telecommunications-focused agency based in Athens, Greece, from September 2003 to August 2006. His responsibilities included supporting the company’s analytics and strategy work. In March 2011, Diakomichalis joined SoundCloud as a data scientist. He later became Vice President of Data Science and Engineering, leading teams working across analytics, machine learning, music information retrieval, and data engineering. He left the company in September 2017. In January 2018, Diakomichalis co-founded Monadic, where he works on Radicle, a decentralized network for code collaboration, and Drips, a platform for funding open-source software. ^[1]

Presentations

Censorship-Resistant Code

In a presentation at d/acc Day Berlin in July 2025, Diakomichalis discussed how open-source code distribution depends on large corporations and the risks of censorship, coercion, and restrictions on anonymous contributions. He presented Radicle, a peer-to-peer protocol that extends Git with cryptographic identities, signed code and collaboration activity, and a gossip network for discovering and retrieving repositories. Its local-first architecture supports privacy, while self-certifying repositories let maintainers set governance rules and use threshold signatures to determine trusted canonical branches. Diakomichalis also described how the approach could be used to distribute verifiable front ends, enabling users to check locally whether the version they are accessing has been approved by the project’s maintainers. ^[2]

Radicle

At a Gnosis Berlin Meetup in June 2025, Diakomichalis discussed political and economic challenges, including nationalism, remilitarization, inequality, authoritarianism, and digital fragmentation. He argued that the cryptocurrency industry had made limited progress toward its goals of giving users greater control over identity, data, privacy, and open access, despite advances in decentralized finance, cryptography, and public-goods funding. He also noted that some privacy-focused tools had attracted users without significant support from the crypto industry and encouraged greater use and funding of these projects. Diakomichalis highlighted Radicle as a peer-to-peer network for censorship-resistant open-source code collaboration and Drips as a platform for flexible funding and redistribution among open-source projects. He concluded that Europe’s efforts to achieve digital independence offer an opportunity to develop a sovereign, neutral internet rather than replicate centralized cloud infrastructure under European ownership. ^[3]