Our Team &
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At Aztec we believe privacy isn’t just a fundamental right, but a creative force for crypto.
Our goal is to unleash the full potential of decentralized technologies by building an open, privacy-first network with no compromises.
Are you world class at what you do? Join us on our journey to create new blockchain paradigms.
Crypto Team
Adrian Hamelink
Cryptography Intern
MSc Computer Science, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Former research intern at Taurus working on threshold signature schemes.
Ariel Gabizon
Chief Scientist
PhD Computer Science (Weizmann Institute), research at Columbia and Technion, formerly researcher and engineer at Zcash & Protocol Labs. Creator of AuroraLight & PLONK.
Arijit Dutta
Cryptography Engineer
PhD Electrical Engineering (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay), including PhD thesis on designing privacy preserving proofs of reserves protocols for exchanges. Master of Engineering (IIEST, Shibpur) including research on encoding techniques for LDPC codes. Former Assistant System Engineer at Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.
Cody Gunton
Applied Cryptography Engineer
PhD, Mathematics (U. Arizona). Postdoctoral research in arithmetic geometry at University of Copenhagen.
Innokentii Sennovskii
Applied Cryptographer
MSci Cybersecurity from National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Moscow. Eight years of experience in practical cybersecurity.
Suyash Bagad
Cryptography Engineer
Btech & Mtech Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, including Masters thesis on designing privacy-preserving proofs of reserves for exchanges.
Zac Williamson
CEO
Doctorate in Particle Physics from University of Oxford. Former physicist at CERN and T2K Japan. Creator of AZTEC Protocol, co-inventor of PLONK
Engineering Team
Guillaume Drevon
Software Engineer / Language Designer
MSc Mathematics, Paris VI university, agrégation in Mathematics, Ecole Normale Supérieur, Paris. Experienced software engineer and IT manager with focus on cryptography and zero-knowledge. Previously working on a research project supported by Fantom Foundation and as a support architect of the European Blockchain Service Infrastructure core team.
Joe Andrews
CEO
BEng Materials Science from Imperial College London. Formerly CTO of Silicon Valley food tech startup Radish. Experienced developer and EF9 Cohort member.
Jan Benes
Smart Contract Engineer
MSc Control Systems and Machine Learning (U. West Bohemia). 4 years backend engineer with strong experience in Web3 and Ethereum related technologies.
Jonathan Bursztyn
Software Engineer
5 years frontend developer experience. Background includes working at Rockstar Games, and creating open source applications for F1 telemetry analysis.
Joss Clifford-Frith
Frontend Software Engineer
5 years web and app frontend experience at Soft Pauer.
Kev Wedderburn
Noir Lead
BSc Computer Science and Mathematics from Queen Mary University. Two years experience implementing ZKPs including PLONK as a Cryptography Engineer at Dusk Network. Rust specialist.
Lasse Herskind
Senior Solidity Engineer
MSc. Eng from Technical University of Denmark, including Masters thesis on privacy preserving electronic cash. Formerly been part of the Aave Smart Contract team and Deloitte Denmark Nextgen team
Leila Wang
Senior Engineer II
BSc Computer Science from National Taiwan University. Previously at King & Wood, and was Senior Software Engineer at TripNotice.com. Joined AZTEC September 2018.
Matt Holford
Junior Designer
New to the Web3 space, with +5 years experience as a freelance Graphic Designer; working with top clients such as Red Bull & Michelin Star restaurant ‘Carters of Moseley’. Graduated from Birmingham City University with a BA Honours in Visual Communication.
Phil Windle
Senior Engineer II
MEng Systems Engineering, Brunel University. Experienced software engineer previously working within the Aerospace and Financial Services industries.
Charlie Lye
CTO
BSc Computer Science from Heriot-Watt. 20 years experience. Formerly Principal Engineer at Triptease, C++ Engineer at Bloomberg, C++ Engineer at BetFair.
Maxim Vezenov
Software Engineer / Language Designer
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.
Commercial Team
Jonathan Wu
Head of Growth
Head of Growth for Aztec, most recently spending time at Uniswap and early-stage startups in real estate and food tech. Earlier in his career he was a management consultant and private equity operator at Bain Capital. He graduated from Harvard Business School with high honors.
Josh Crites
Developer Relations Engineer
Self-taught, on-boarding developers to web3 since 2017. Previously at the Celo Foundation and Consensys Academy.
Lisa Cuesta
Head of Business Development
Harvard MBA, UPenn Wharton BS. Previously principal at NextGen Venture Partners, a venture capital firm acquired by Brown Advisory, an investment management firm. Launched products globally at Google
