Aztec Labs Team

Mathematician/cryptographer. Recovering academic.

Former post-doctoral researcher at ENCRYPTO, TU Darmstadt, Germany. PhD from CrIS Lab, IISc Bangalore, India. Carried out research in designing secure MPC protocols in various adversarial models for real-world applications.

MSc in Distributed Systems, U. Bucharest. Full-stack dev, Node.js & Typescript specialist. Ex-Adobe, IOHK.

BSc in Comp Sci, National Taiwan U. Ex-King & Wood, Senior Engineer at TripNotice.com. Joined Aztec in 2018.

Privacy attorney, crypto startup advisor. Ex-associate at Willkie Farr & Gallagher NYC. LLM, NYU Law; JD, Sciences Po.

Doctorate in Particle Physics from University of Oxford. Former physicist at CERN and T2K Japan. Creator of AZTEC Protocol, co-inventor of PLONK.

MSc Eng, Technical U Denmark. Masters on privacy-preserving e-cash. Ex-Aave Smart Contract team, and Deloitte Denmark NextGen.

U. Buenos Aires Comp Sci MSc. 18+ yrs coding, 6 in Web3. Council at The Graph, mentor at Zeitgeist. Ex-OpenZeppelin, Manas.tech.

12 years in the Recruiting and HR space. Previous experience at LinkedIn, Dropbox and Robinhood.

Self-taught, on-boarding developers to Web3 since 2017. Previously at the Celo Foundation and Consensys Academy.

Computer Science / Cognitive Science. 6+ years experience as a Backend Developer, with stints as Technical Lead, Blockchain Engineer, and Devops Engineer at a wide variety of companies.

Self-taught Web3 enthusiast, with mechanical engineer background. Previously on-boarding devs to ZK at Harmony zkDAO.

BSc Mathematics from Brunel University, MSc Mathematics from St Andrew's University. Previously cryptography researcher for 3 years, working on zero-knowledge proofs for blockchain privacy.

Multi-disciplinary designer with focus in brand design and 3D illustration, experience in fashion and tech. Previously at OKX and CLO3D.

MSci in Cybersecurity, National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Moscow. 8 years in practical cybersecurity.

BEng Materials Science from Imperial College London. Formerly CTO of Silicon Valley food tech startup Radish. Experienced developer and EF9 Cohort member.

PhD in Theoretical Computer Science from the Weizmann Institute. Transitioned from pure theory to applied ZK working in Eli Ben-Sasson's lab on STARKs. Joined Zcash in 2016 to help with the first-ever SNARK trusted setup and real-life deployment and working in the applied ZK space since. Co-author of PlonK.

Music teacher turned self-taught software developer since 2017. Ex-Mindera, Polygon. Passionate about Web3, privacy, a greener world.

8+ years web3 marketing leader with product focus. Previous experience at TrustToken, OpenZeppelin, and Chainlink.

10+ years of experience at the intersection of emerging technologies and communications with a focus on making complex concepts digestible for all. Previously led PR and developer marketing efforts for Consenys, Akash Network, and Ethereum Classic.

MSc Computer Engineering, University of Maryland - College Park. 10+ years industry experience: cofounded real estate tech company TwnSqr after engineering roles at Hewlett-Packard Enterprise and Northrop Grumman.

BSc in Comp Sci & AI, U. Edinburgh. 9 years full-stack dev at Apple, Microsoft, Babylon Health, and others.

MSc in Control Systems & Machine Learning, U. West Bohemia. 4 years in backend engineering on Web3 and Ethereum.

PhD in Mathematics, University of Bonn. Ex-postdoc in arithmetic geometry, University of Regensburg.

MSc Computer Science from Budapest University of Technology and Economics, MSc in Banking from Corvinus University. 20 years in software enginnering. Previous blockchain experience at IOHK, BabylonChain and Protocol Labs.

MSc in Comp Sci, U. Waterloo. Full-stack, compiler, game dev experience. Hobby game developer.

BSc Physics and Computer Science. 6+ years working on and researching ZKPs.

Blockchain participant since 2013. BA in Math and Physics. Startup native. Designed, implemented, and audited smart contracts for Ethereum and Tezos: DeFi, NFTs, DAO. Created Tezos meta-tx standard. CA mDL collaborator.

MSc Mathematics, ETHZ; PhD in Cryptography, EPFL. 15 years in security engineering, PKI, blockchains, and applied cryptography.

B.Tech in Computer Science Engineering, University of Calicut. Software engineer for 11 years, previously at Ethereum Foundation (PSE).

12+ years in events across Web3, blockchain, aerospace, live music shows, and large-scale conferences. Led global event strategies at Consensys.

MEng in Systems Engineering, Brunel U. Software engineer previously in Aerospace and Financial Services sectors.

PhD in Applied Mathematics from University of Arizona.

PhD Computer Science (U. Amsterdam) & MSc Computer Science (U. Buenos Aires). Previously Staff Software Engineer at Google, leading anti-piracy efforts.

BSc Computer Science and Business & MSc in Computer Science from Lehigh University, focused on accelerating ZKP generation. Previous experience as an intern at ChainSafe Systems and Klaviyo.

5+ years in community building. I have planned and led 4 seperate communities through TGE and beyond. Previous experience includes Phoenix Marketing and Mina Protocol.

PhD in theoretical cryptography from EPFL. Worked on foundations of cryptography and quantum computing.

BSc in Information Security, National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Moscow. Cryptography and security enthusiast.

Career in finance leadership; ex-CFO at ShapeShift. Earlier leadership roles roles in ‘Big 4’, banking, corporate finance organizations. DeFi proponent.

MS in Tax and Accounting. 5+ years in Web3. Formerly with ShapeShift AG and Kraken.

10+ years operations and people experience in tech, publishing and fashion space. Previously worked with Condé Nast, Apple & Inditex.

Harvard MBA, UPenn Wharton BS. Ex-principal at NextGen Venture Partners, acquired by Brown Advisory. Launched products globally at Google.

BSc Comp Sci & Business, MSc Comp Sci, Lehigh U. ZKP generation focus. Ex-ChainSafe, Klaviyo.

MSci in Theoretical Physics, Imperial. Ex-smart contract developer at Balancer Labs.

MSc in Information Security and BEng in Electronic and Computer Engineering. 6+ years in Security mostly in coporate finance within the UK.

Previously led Institutional Business Development at Aave Labs. Prior to crypto, worked for 10 years in traditional finance, principally in ETF distribution. Committed to learning ZK and bringing mainstream users on-chain.

Web3 marketeer with several years of experience in creative campaigns, social media and experiential events. Previous experience at Internet Computer Protocol, Near Protocol and Chainalysis

Telecommunications engineer, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. 5+ years in Web3, p2p poker at ConsenSys, fullstack & solidity dev.

PhD in Mathematics, UCL. Enthusiastic learner.

BSc in Electronics Engineering, 6+ years in crypto after doing embedded software engineering. Led the Smart Contract team at Balancer Labs, worked at OpenZeppelin before that.

7+ yrs as a personal assistant and paralegal in law firms in NZ and London. Legal Exec Diploma, BA in History and Politics.

MSc Computer Engineering, U. Maryland. Experience in EVM game dev, DeFi design, python, embedded systems, and FPGA design.

New to the Web3 space with 4+ years experience in Fintech Operations.

B.Sc. in Statistics from University of Toronto. Amin Co-founded Fuku, a crypto options trading protocol and launched new crypto startups 0-1 at crypto venture studio Diagram Ventures.

Telecommunications engineer with +7 years of experience as a full stack developer. Previously worked in the space sector, emergency management and some web3 projects sprinkled on top.

Loves distributed systems and cryptography, previously protocol engineering and research at Polygon, Fuel Network.

BSc Computer Science and Brand Development from Minerva University. 5+ yrs web3 product marketing lead. Previously at Polygon, Avail, and Namebase.

Computer Science, 20+ years experience as a full stack developer, creator of the Crystal programming language.

MMath in Math Sci, U. Bath. 3 yrs building private smart contracts tools for Ethereum, 5 yrs actuarial modelling.

LLM from London School of Economics. Crypto advisor to KYVE Network, Parallel Finance, and other start-ups. 10+ years at White & Case London, ex-Counsel.

BSc Computer Science. 25+ years software engineering. Former career in gaming and finance sectors. Unix evangelist.

MSc Mathematics, Paris VI University, agrégation at ENS Paris. Software engineer, IT manager focused on cryptography and ZK.

B.Tech and M.Tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay, 5+ years in applied cryptography. ex-Aztec → ex-Ingonyama → Aztec.

BA in Business Administration with over 7 years in executive support roles.

U. Liverpool grad. Ex-Reddit Crypto, and Amazon Alexa. Product-first engineering approach enthusiast.

MA in English Literature from University of Cambridge, MA in Musical Performance from Royal Academy of Music, Qualified Bookkeeper and trainee Accountant.

MS in Electrical Engineering (Computer Science) and BS in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics at National Taiwan University. 10+ years of software engineering experience at Google, Meta, Booking.com, and Mozilla.

BSc in Comp Sci & Business. Member of Huff team, fellow at Paradigm.

A.B. in Art History, Dartmouth College (Cum Laude), MBA, University of Texas at Austin (Honors); 15+ years of marketing executive experience, specifically commercializing new products and technologies. Previously at RISC Zero, Mina Foundation (Founder), Ripple, SoFi. In crypto since 2011. Lives in California with her husband and two children.