The Company, The Culture, The Gatherings
Global Leaders in Zero Knowledge
Aztec’s renowned research team is the force behind PLONK, the lightning-fast standard in zero knowledge technologies. The team has brought multiple R&D breakthroughs to Layer 2 on Ethereum, and has deep experience of deploying complex cryptosystems to Web3.
Culture & remote work
We're a London-based team, but have embraced a remote-first culture - our team members live in the UK, Poland and India, and we're happy to hire in any timezone. The Londoners in the team meet in rotating locations in central London on Wednesdays and Thursdays, and quarterly offsites in the UK provide a great opportunity for us to talk about the things that excite us, reset our ambitions, and keep the team stitched together.
Our Universal ZK-SNARK, called PLONK, is the standard in ZK-SNARK technologies - PLONK proofs sit at the heart of
See our research page for details on our cryptography.
Team
Tom Walton-Pocock
CEO
BA & Masters in mathematics from University of Cambridge, Graduate Diploma in Law from City Law School, and CFA Charterholder. Previously Associate, Park Square Capital.
Zac Williamson
CTO
Doctorate in Particle Physics from University of Oxford. Former physicist at CERN and T2K Japan. Creator of AZTEC Protocol, co-inventor of PLONK.
Joe Andrews
CPO
BEng Materials Science from Imperial College London. Formerly CTO of Silicon Valley food tech startup Radish. Experienced developer and EF9 Cohort member.
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.
Charlie Lye
Engineering Lead
BSc Computer Science from Heriot-Watt. 20 years experience. Formerly Principal Engineer at Triptease, C++ Engineer at Bloomberg, C++ Engineer at BetFair.
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.
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.
Hridam Basu
Cryptography Engineer
BE from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. MS in Computer Science from Northeastern University, Boston, USA. Brief Stints at NTT Labs Tokyo, AT&T Labs Manhattan and TCS Labs Hyderabad. Previously Blockchain and Cryptography Researcher at Matic Network.
