Aztec Labs Team
We are a fully-remote team committed to unleashing the full potential of decentralized technologies by building a fully decentralized, privacy-first Layer 2 network with no compromises.
Meet our founders

Zac Williamson
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Joe Andrews
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A global team distributed in 14 countries

LLM from London School of Economics. Crypto advisor to KYVE Network, Parallel Finance, and other start-ups. 10+ years at White & Case London, ex-Counsel.

Multi-disciplinary designer with focus in brand design and 3D illustration, experience in fashion and tech. Previously at OKX and CLO3D.

PhD in Mathematics, University of Bonn. Ex-postdoc in arithmetic geometry, University of Regensburg.

Previously led Institutional Business Development at Aave Labs. Prior to crypto, worked for 10 years in traditional finance, principally in ETF distribution. Committed to learning ZK and bringing mainstream users on-chain.

Doctorate in Particle Physics from University of Oxford. Former physicist at CERN and T2K Japan. Creator of AZTEC Protocol, co-inventor of PLONK.

7+ yrs as a personal assistant and paralegal in law firms in NZ and London. Legal Exec Diploma, BA in History and Politics.

MSc in Control Systems & Machine Learning, U. West Bohemia. 4 years in backend engineering on Web3 and Ethereum.

Mechatronic Engineering / Computer Science. 20+ years experience programming: embedded systems, mobile app, and smart contracts; and always with a side-hustle of education and community engagement.

BSc Computer Science. 25+ years software engineering. Former career in gaming and finance sectors. Unix evangelist.

MSc Computer Science from Budapest University of Technology and Economics, MSc in Banking from Corvinus University. 20 years in software enginnering. Previous blockchain experience at IOHK, BabylonChain and Protocol Labs.

BSc in Computer Engineering from UT Austin. Ex engineer at WeWork & Flexport. Serial crypto founder since 2018 and Consensys certified developer.

PhD in theoretical cryptography from EPFL. Worked on foundations of cryptography and quantum computing.

BA in Business Administration with over 7 years in executive support roles.

MSci in Theoretical Physics, Imperial. Ex-smart contract developer at Balancer Labs.

BSc in Comp Sci & AI, U. Edinburgh. 9 years full-stack dev at Apple, Microsoft, Babylon Health, and others.
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Mathematician/cryptographer. Recovering academic.

Harvard MBA, UPenn Wharton BS. Ex-principal at NextGen Venture Partners, acquired by Brown Advisory. Launched products globally at Google.

8+ years web3 marketing leader with product focus. Previous experience at TrustToken, OpenZeppelin, and Chainlink.

Blockchain participant since 2013. BA in Math and Physics. Startup native. Designed, implemented, and audited smart contracts for Ethereum and Tezos: DeFi, NFTs, DAO. Created Tezos meta-tx standard. CA mDL collaborator.

BSc Comp Sci & Business, MSc Comp Sci, Lehigh U. ZKP generation focus. Ex-ChainSafe, Klaviyo.

Music teacher turned self-taught software developer since 2017. Ex-Mindera, Polygon. Passionate about Web3, privacy, a greener world.
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Web3 marketeer with several years of experience in creative campaigns, social media and experiential events. Previous experience at Internet Computer Protocol, Near Protocol and Chainalysis

BSc Physics and Computer Science. 6+ years working on and researching ZKPs.

MMath in Math Sci, U. Bath. 3 yrs building private smart contracts tools for Ethereum, 5 yrs actuarial modelling.

Computer Science / Cognitive Science. 6+ years experience as a Backend Developer, with stints as Technical Lead, Blockchain Engineer, and Devops Engineer at a wide variety of companies.

10+ years operations and people experience in tech, publishing and fashion space. Previously worked with Condé Nast, Apple & Inditex.

B.Sc. in Statistics from University of Toronto. Amin Co-founded Fuku, a crypto options trading protocol and launched new crypto startups 0-1 at crypto venture studio Diagram Ventures.

MSci in Cybersecurity, National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Moscow. 8 years in practical cybersecurity.

Career in finance leadership; ex-CFO at ShapeShift. Earlier leadership roles roles in ‘Big 4’, banking, corporate finance organizations. DeFi proponent.

MSc Eng, Technical U Denmark. Masters on privacy-preserving e-cash. Ex-Aave Smart Contract team, and Deloitte Denmark NextGen.

New to the Web3 space with 4+ years experience in Fintech Operations.

MSc Information Security, UCL and BA Computer Science, Cambridge. Formerly at Cryptonet, Protocol Labs working on SNARKs

Former post-doctoral researcher at ENCRYPTO, TU Darmstadt, Germany. PhD from CrIS Lab, IISc Bangalore, India. Carried out research in designing secure MPC protocols in various adversarial models for real-world applications.

MSc in Distributed Systems, U. Bucharest. Full-stack dev, Node.js & Typescript specialist. Ex-Adobe, IOHK.

U. Buenos Aires Comp Sci MSc. 18+ yrs coding, 6 in Web3. Council at The Graph, mentor at Zeitgeist. Ex-OpenZeppelin, Manas.tech.

BSc Mathematics from Brunel University, MSc Mathematics from St Andrew's University. Previously cryptography researcher for 3 years, working on zero-knowledge proofs for blockchain privacy.

Privacy attorney, crypto startup advisor. Ex-associate at Willkie Farr & Gallagher NYC. LLM, NYU Law; JD, Sciences Po.

MSc Mathematics, ETHZ; PhD in Cryptography, EPFL. 15 years in security engineering, PKI, blockchains, and applied cryptography.

MSc in Comp Sci, U. Waterloo. Full-stack, compiler, game dev experience. Hobby game developer.

BSc in Comp Sci & Business. Member of Huff team, fellow at Paradigm.

Computer Science, 20+ years experience as a full stack developer, creator of the Crystal programming language.
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BSc Computer Science and Brand Development from Minerva University. 5+ yrs web3 product marketing lead. Previously at Polygon, Avail, and Namebase.

MSc Computer Engineering, University of Maryland - College Park. 10+ years industry experience: cofounded real estate tech company TwnSqr after engineering roles at Hewlett-Packard Enterprise and Northrop Grumman.

U. Liverpool grad. Ex-Reddit Crypto, and Amazon Alexa. Product-first engineering approach enthusiast.

PhD in Applied Mathematics from University of Arizona.

A.B. in Art History, Dartmouth College (Honors), MBA, University of Texas at Austin (Honors); 15+ years of marketing executive experience, specifically commercializing new prodcuts and technologies previously at RISC Zero, Mina Foundation (Founder), O(1) Labs, Ripple, SoFi. In crypto since 2011.

B.Tech in Computer Science Engineering, University of Calicut. Software engineer for 11 years, previously at Ethereum Foundation (PSE).

Self-taught, on-boarding developers to Web3 since 2017. Previously at the Celo Foundation and Consensys Academy.

Self-taught Web3 enthusiast, with mechanical engineer background. Previously on-boarding devs to ZK at Harmony zkDAO.

BSc in Information Security, National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Moscow. Cryptography and security enthusiast.

MS in Tax and Accounting. 5+ years in Web3. Formerly with ShapeShift AG and Kraken.

10+ years of experience at the intersection of emerging technologies and communications with a focus on making complex concepts digestible for all. Previously led PR and developer marketing efforts for Consenys, Akash Network, and Ethereum Classic.

BSc in Comp Sci, National Taiwan U. Ex-King & Wood, Senior Engineer at TripNotice.com. Joined Aztec in 2018.

MA in English Literature from University of Cambridge, MA in Musical Performance from Royal Academy of Music, Qualified Bookkeeper and trainee Accountant.

12 years in the Recruiting and HR space. Previous experience at LinkedIn, Dropbox and Robinhood.

PhD in Theoretical Computer Science from the Weizmann Institute. Transitioned from pure theory to applied ZK working in Eli Ben-Sasson's lab on STARKs. Joined Zcash in 2016 to help with the first-ever SNARK trusted setup and real-life deployment and working in the applied ZK space since. Co-author of PlonK.

BSc in Electronics Engineering, 6+ years in crypto after doing embedded software engineering. Led the Smart Contract team at Balancer Labs, worked at OpenZeppelin before that.

BEng Materials Science from Imperial College London. Formerly CTO of Silicon Valley food tech startup Radish. Experienced developer and EF9 Cohort member.

MS in Electrical Engineering (Computer Science) and BS in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics at National Taiwan University. 10+ years of software engineering experience at Google, Meta, Booking.com, and Mozilla.
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B.Tech and M.Tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay, 5+ years in applied cryptography. ex-Aztec → ex-Ingonyama → Aztec.

MSc Computer Engineering, U. Maryland. Experience in EVM game dev, DeFi design, python, embedded systems, and FPGA design.

MSc Mathematics, Paris VI University, agrégation at ENS Paris. Software engineer, IT manager focused on cryptography and ZK.

MEng in Systems Engineering, Brunel U. Software engineer previously in Aerospace and Financial Services sectors.

PhD Computer Science (U. Amsterdam) & MSc Computer Science (U. Buenos Aires). Previously Staff Software Engineer at Google, leading anti-piracy efforts.

MS CS, Stanford; BS CS, UCLA. MS research on ZK VMs. Competitive programming enthusiast.

Telecommunications engineer with +7 years of experience as a full stack developer. Previously worked in the space sector, emergency management and some web3 projects sprinkled on top.

Telecommunications engineer, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. 5+ years in Web3, p2p poker at ConsenSys, fullstack & solidity dev.

BSc in mathematics in UoL. Previously research in Taiko.
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12+ years in events across Web3, blockchain, aerospace, live music shows, and large-scale conferences. Led global event strategies at Consensys.