Blockchain Researcher and Systems Engineer

Core Skills

• Rust
• Systems Engineering
• Distributed Systems and Blockchain
• Cryptography
• Zero-Knowledge
• ECC
• STARKs

Other Languages

• Python
• Typescript

🛠 Experience

Founder — Ciphercurve LLC

Ongoing

• Built lightwave - a recursive ZK light client operator
• Worked on ZKVM friendly storage proofs for different blockchains with different storage tries (Ethereum, Cosmos Tendermint)

ZK Engineer — ChainSafe Systems

Oct 2024 – Mar 2025

• Built storage proof systems for EVM chains and L2s including Optimism and Arbitrum.
• Developed spectre-rad, a ZKVM-optimized light client.
• Won 2nd place ($10,000 prize) at an Aligned Layer hackathon.

R&D Engineer — Casper Association

Nov 2022 – Sep 2024

• Core contributor to Kairos, a proof-of-concept L2 on the Casper network.

R&D Assistant — Casper Association

Jul 2022 – Oct 2022

• Developed dApps and Rust-based smart contracts for the Casper ecosystem.
• Published educational content on blockchain and cryptography on Medium.

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