Background
I have been actively engaged in the blockchain industry since 2015, transitioning to a full-time role in 2017 at a quantitative trading firm specializing in digital assets. My primary interests lie in applied cryptography and its potential to enhance privacy and drive the adoption of blockchain technology.
Prior to my involvement in the blockchain space, I was in tradFi (traditional finance) focusing mostly in the Fixed Income markets. My most recent role was as the Lead Quantitative Developer and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at a quantitative hedge fund. I hold a degree in Computer Engineering and have earned both the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and Certified Financial Risk Manager (FRM) designations.
I’m spending my time on:
Current
- Electisec - resident at the ZK auditing DAO
- ProgCryptoSG - organizing technical meetups (slides) about programmable cryptography in Singapore (events sponsored by Ethereum Foundation and Privacy & Scaling Explorations). See here for list of events.
Past
- Groth16 Fundamentals - gave a presentation at a Privacy & Scaling Explorations ZK Workshop held at National University of Singapore
- Workbook for Introduction to Programmable Cryptography - translated all the algorithms and examples mentioned in the book to code (sponsored by 0xPARC)
- Verifier Validation Registry - proposal to allow users to quickly check the validity of zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) verifiers (sponsored by Electisec)
- Auditing Summa, PSE’s implementation of Proof of Reserve in Halo2 (Electisec - ZK Fellowship)
- Onchain Verifiable Random Function using Leo (Aleo Hackathon Winner and subsequently sponsored by Aleo)
- Implementing BLS signatures on BN254 and BLS12-381 in Halo2 (sponsored by Axiom)
- Anonymous voting using Semaphore + Polygon ID
- KERNEL Fellow, KB2 (Gitcoin ConsenSys)
- ZKP MOOC - completed course on Legendary Tier (Berkeley RDI)
- Dual Winner of Arbitrum award & Optimism award (ETHGlobal Scaling Ethereum Hackathon)
- 1st Place - Techstars Global Startup Weekend Artificial Intelligence
- Best User Experience Award - Startup Weekend