My meta-goal is to maximize the positive impact I have on the world to help people and take humanity to a new age of prosperity and abundance.
After a few years of trying out different things I decided that cryptography and distributed systems are the domains that interest me the most.
Affiliations
World Foundation
Research Engineer
Feb 2024 - Present
Working on the World Foundation Human Collective Grants program (world.org/community-grants), protocol research and development, decentralization of the World ecosystem, and supporting the World mission.
Tools For Humanity
Research Engineer
July 2022 - Feb 2024
Tools for Humanity are the main developers of the World project. As a research engineer on the protocol team at TfH I worked on all the core parts of World ID protocol, the Semaphore merkle tree batcher circuits (SMTB), the signup sequencer, the state bridge contracts and various other parts of the protocol. I built tooling and run the trusted setups for SMTB which are written in Go using the gnark library. Worked with Rust, Solidity, Foundry, Go, and their ecosystems of libraries and tools.
Bagel
Advisor
Aug 2024 - Present
Bagel is a machine learning and cryptography research lab building a neutral, peer-to-peer AI ecosystem that covers the complete machine learning lifecycle. The platform specializes in privacy-preserving machine learning through technologies like homomorphic encryption and zero-knowledge proofs, while also pioneering GPU restaking - a novel system that allows computational resources to be utilized across multiple platforms concurrently.
Modulus Labs
Advisor
Oct 2023 - Present
Modulus specializes in making artificial intelligence accountable through the use of advanced cryptography including ZK and MPC. I've been advising Modulus on go to market, product development, and research. We also collaborate on research and development of privacy preserving digital identity together with the World Foundation and TFH.
devpill.me
Creator
Aug 2021 - Present
I created devpill.me, which is a public good blockchain development guide aimed at becoming the go-to learning resource aggregator for building on Ethereum and its wider ecosystem of scaling solutions and applications. I am an active maintainer of the guide and try to add new sections with learning resources for different fields of blockchain research and development.
ETHPrague
Coorganizer
Dec 2021 - Present
ETHPrague is a 3-day organized hackathon/conference by local members of the Ethereum community that took place in Jun 10-12. I secured sponsors for the event, managed Twitter communications and announcements, reviewed hacker and speaker applications, judged submissions at the hackathon and helped with other miscellaneous tasks.
Alongside
Research Engineer
Mar 2022 - July 2022
Alongside is a protocol that allows anyone to get crypto market exposure in a few simple clicks. I was a research engineer for Alongside and I did research on the architecture of the technical solutions required to build the crypto market index. My research focused on decentralized custodians, secure multi-party computation, governance structures, L2s, and more.
Moralis
Blockchain researcher
Jul 2020 - Mar 2022
Moralis is a web3 development platform that allows for an easy and simple dapp development experience. I worked as a researcher and writer for their weekly research publications. My research was also used internally to improve Moralis products and to help the company thrive in a web3 ecosystem.