Team & Careers
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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 a fully decentralized, privacy-first Layer 2 network with no compromises.
Are you world class at what you do? Join us on our journey to create new blockchain paradigms.
Leadership Team
Zac Williamson
CEO and Co-Founder
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
President and Co-Founder
BEng Materials Science from Imperial College London. Formerly CTO of Silicon Valley food tech startup Radish. Experienced developer and EF9 Cohort member.
Lisa Cuesta Bunin
COO
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.
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.
Scott Siversen
CFO
A distinguished career building exceptional finance functions and teams. Most recently CFO for ShapeShift. Earlier leadership roles in ‘Big 4’, banking and corporate finance organizations. Dedicated to facilitating a future where DeFi is the unequivocal standard for a sound economic system.
Andre Omietanski
General Counsel
LLM from London School of Economics. Crypto experience advising KYVE Network, Parallel Finance and other early stage crypto start-ups. In his tradfi life he spent 10+ years at White & Case London and left as Counsel.
Crypto Team
Cody Gunton
Cryptography Engineering Team Lead
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.
Luke Edwards
Cryptography Engineer
PhD, Applied Mathematics (University of Arizona).
Mara Mihali
Cryptography Engineer
MSc Information Security, UCL and BA Computer Science, Cambridge. Formerly at Cryptonet, Protocol Labs working on SNARKs.
Tohru Kohrita
Cryptography Researcher
Mathematician with experience on problems in algebraic geometry. Postdoc years in Japan, India and Germany
Patrick Towa
Cryptography Research Team Lead
Former post-doctoral researcher in the Applied Cryptography group of ETH Zurich.Former pre-doctoral cryptography researcher at IBM Research Zurich during PhD thesis preperation.
Lucas Xia
Cryptography Engineer
MS in CS at Stanford and BS in CS at UCLA. MS research in prover efficient ZK VMs. Avid competitive programmer.
Sergei Iakovenko
Cryptography Researcher
PhD Mathematics from University of Bonn. Former postdoc in arithmetic geometry at University of Regensburg.
Engineering Team
Kev Wedderburn
Noir Team Lead
BSc Computer Science and Mathematics from Queen Mary University. Two years experience implementing ZKPs including PLONK.
David Banks
Aztec Team Lead
MSc Computer Engineering, University of Marlyand – College Park. Previous experience in EVM game development, DeFi protocol design, python developer frameworks, embedded systems, and FPGA design.
Lasse Herskind
Aztec Team Lead
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
Aztec Team Lead
BSc Computer Science from National Taiwan University. Previously at King & Wood, and was Senior Software Engineer at TripNotice.com. Joined AZTEC September 2018.
Phil Windle
Aztec Team Lead
MEng Systems Engineering, Brunel University. Experienced software engineer previously working within the Aerospace and Financial Services industries.
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.
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.
Jean Monnerat
Software Engineer / Applied Cryptographer
MSc Mathematics, ETHZ & PhD Cryptography, EPFL. 15 years of industrial experience working on various topics such as security engineering and architecture, key management, PKI, software engineering, blockchains and applied cryptography.
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.
Spyros Psychoyios
Software Engineer
BSc Computer Science & AI from University of Edinburgh. Relatively new to crypto space with 9 years of full-stack dev experience in multiple companies including Apple, Microsoft & Babylon Health.
Alvaro Rodriguez
Software Engineer
Telecommunications engineer from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Working in the web3 space since 2017, spent 5 years working on p2p poker at ConsenSys. 6+ Years of experience as a fullstack and solidity dev.
ludamad
Software Engineer
1MSc Computer Science (U. Waterloo). Full-stack, compiler and game development experience. Hobby game developer since a young age.
Tom French
Software Engineer
MSci Theoretical Physics (Imperial). Previously smart contract developer at Balancer Labs.
Santiago Palladino
Software Engineer
MSc Computer Science from University of Buenos Aires. Been coding professionally for 18+ years, and joined the web3 space 6 years ago. Councilmember for The Graph and Technical mentor at Zeitgeist. Previously at OpenZeppelin and Manas.tech.
Rahul Kothari
Software Engineer
Graduated from University of Liverpool. This is my first venture into ZK! Previously at Reddit’s Crypto team and Amazon Alexa. I enjoy engineering with a product first mentality.
Maddiaa
Software Engineer
BSc Computer Science and Business. Huff team, fellow at Paradigm.
Alex Gherghisan
Software Engineer
MSc Distributed systems from University of Bucharest. Experienced full stack developer working with Node.js & Typescript. Previously at Adobe, IOHK.
Product & Developer Relations
Cooper Kunz
Product Manager
Formerly CTO at Calaxy, and early employee at Hedera Hashgraph. College dropout (University of Arizona). Fan of Texas BBQ, sour beers, and good software.
Globallager
Noir Product Manager
Mechanical engineer turned self-taught Web3 enthusiast. On-boarding developers to the ZK space at Harmony zkDAO before joining Aztec.
Michael Connor
Applied Cryptographer
MMath Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath. Three years experience designing and building tools for private smart contracts on Ethereum. Five years actuarial modelling.
Josh Crites
Developer Relations Engineer
Self-taught, on-boarding developers to web3 since 2017. Previously at the Celo Foundation and Consensys Academy.
José Pedro Sousa
Developer Relations Engineer
A music teacher, since 2017 teaching himself software development. Previously at Mindera and Polygon. Loves web3 and privacy space and works for a better, greener world.
Cat McGee
Developer Relations Engineer
Web2 developer turned blockchain engineer turned web3 devrel engineer. Previously AAVE. Comp sci grad. Ran a devrel agency working with some projects such as Algorand, NEAR, Sui, and more.
Commercial & Operations Team
Amal Ibraymi
Legal Counsel
Privacy attorney with experience advising crypto startups on building secure and privacy-focused blockchain ecosystems. Formerly an associate at Willkie Farr & Gallagher NYC. LLM from NYU School of Law and JD from Sciences Po.
Justin Harris
Director of Finance
MS in Tax and Accounting. 5+ years in Web3. Formerly with ShapeShift AG and Kraken.
Melissa Yates
People Operations
15 years experience within Publishing, Fashion and Tech, working with Condé Nast, Apple and Zara.
Genevieve Birdsall
Executive Assistant
New to the Web3 space, has 7+ years experience as a personal assistant and paralegal in law firms in New Zealand and London. Legal Executive Diploma and BA majoring in History and Politics.
Alyssa Gill
Marketing Manager
Howard MBA candidate, BA in Political Science from Penn State University. Previously at web3 marketing agency Serotonin. Web2 career was in startups/venture capital.
Meredith Darden
Developer Advocate
7 years experience building blockchain communities. Privacy advocate. Previously at Oasis Network.
Matt Holford
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.
Travis Shimizu
Recruiter
12 years in the Recruiting and HR space. Previous experience at LinkedIn, Dropbox and Robinhood.
