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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 and Joe Andrews from Aztec

Zac Williamson

Joe Andrews

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A global team distributed in 14 countries

Andre Omietanski
Andre Omietanski
Leadership
General Counsel

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.

Tiffany Huang
Tiffany Huang
Commercial
Senior Brand Designer

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

Sergei Iakovenko
Sergei Iakovenko
Crypto
Cryptography Researcher

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

Stephen Kenny
Stephen Kenny
Commercial
Head of BD

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.

Zac Williamson
Zac Williamson
Leadership
CEO & 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.

Genevieve Birdsall
Genevieve Birdsall
Operations
Operations Manager

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

Jan Benes
Jan Benes
Engineering
Software Engineer

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

James Zaki
James Zaki
DevRel
Developer Relations Engineer

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.

Charlie J
Charlie J
Leadership
CTO

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

Akosh Farkash
Akosh Farkash
Engineering
Noir Software Engineer

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.

Rafi Rashid
Rafi Rashid
Product
Product Manager

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

Khashayar Barooti
Khashayar Barooti
Crypto
Cryptography Researcher

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

Meredith Kohls
Meredith Kohls
Operations
Executive Assistant

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

Tom French
Tom French
Engineering
Noir Team Lead

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

Spyros Psychoyios
Spyros Psychoyios
Engineering
Software Engineer

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

Raju Krishnamoorthy
Raju Krishnamoorthy
Cryptography Engineer

Mathematician/cryptographer. Recovering academic.

Lisa Cuesta Bunin
Lisa Cuesta Bunin
Leadership
COO

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

David Steinrueck
David Steinrueck
Commercial
Product Marketing Lead

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

Michael Klein
Michael Klein
Engineering
Software Engineer

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.

Maxim Vezenov
Maxim Vezenov
Engineering
Noir Software Engineer

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

José Pedro Sousa
José Pedro Sousa
DevRel
Developer Relations Engineer

Music teacher turned self-taught software developer since 2017. Ex-Mindera, Polygon. Passionate about Web3, privacy, a greener world.

Hannah Fressle
Hannah Fressle
Commercial
Social Media Manager

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

Ilyas Ridhuan
Ilyas Ridhuan
Engineering
Software Engineer

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

Michael Connor
Michael Connor
Product
Aztec Architect

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

Esau.eth
Esau.eth
DevRel
Software Engineer

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.

Melissa Yates
Melissa Yates
Operations
Head of People Operations

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

Amin Sammara
Amin Sammara
Product
Product Manager

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.

Innokentii Sennovskii
Innokentii Sennovskii
Crypto
Security Team Lead

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

Scott Siversen
Scott Siversen
Leadership
CFO

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

Lasse Herskind
Lasse Herskind
Engineering
Aztec Team Lead

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

Nicola Ratcliffe
Nicola Ratcliffe
Operations
Operations Assistant

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

Mara Mihali
Mara Mihali
Crypto
Cryptography Engineer

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

Nishat Koti
Nishat Koti
Crypto
Cryptography Researcher

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.

Alex Gherghisan
Alex Gherghisan
Engineering
Software Engineer

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

Santiago Palladino
Santiago Palladino
Engineering
Software Engineer

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

Miranda Wood
Miranda Wood
Engineering
Software Engineer

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.

Amal Ibraymi
Amal Ibraymi
Operations
Legal Counsel

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

Jean Monnerat
Jean Monnerat
Engineering
Cryptography Engineer

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

ludamad
ludamad
Crypto
Software Engineer

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

Maddiaa
Maddiaa
Engineering
Software Engineer

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

Ary Borenszweig
Ary Borenszweig
Engineering
Software Engineer

Computer Science, 20+ years experience as a full stack developer, creator of the Crystal programming language.

Jake Schaeffer
Jake Schaeffer
Commercial
Product Marketing Manager (Noir)

BSc Computer Science and Brand Development from Minerva University. 5+ yrs web3 product marketing lead. Previously at Polygon, Avail, and Namebase.

Mitchell Tracy
Mitchell Tracy
Engineering
Software Engineer

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.

Rahul Kothari
Rahul Kothari
Product
Product Manager

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

Luke Edwards
Luke Edwards
Crypto
Cryptography Engineering Team Lead

PhD in Applied Mathematics from University of Arizona.

Claire Kart
Claire Kart
Leadership
CMO

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.

Saleel Pichen
Saleel Pichen
DevRel
Software Engineer

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

Josh Crites
Josh Crites
DevRel
Developer Relations Engineer

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

Globallager
Globallager
Product
Noir Product Manager

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

Aleksandr Sokolov
Aleksandr Sokolov
Crypto
Cryptography Engineer

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

Justin Harris
Justin Harris
Operations
Director of Finance

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

Kelsey Ruiz
Kelsey Ruiz
Commercial
Head of Communications

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.

Leila Wang
Leila Wang
Engineering
Aztec Team Lead

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

Simon Ponsford
Simon Ponsford
Operations
Finance Administrator

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

Travis Shimizu
Travis Shimizu
Operations
Recruiter

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

Ariel Gabizon
Ariel Gabizon
Crypto
Chief Scientist

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.

Nicolás Venturo
Nicolás Venturo
Engineering
Aztec Team Lead

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.

Joe Andrews
Joe Andrews
Leadership
President & Co-Founder

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

Jonathan Hao
Jonathan Hao
Crypto
Cryptography Engineer

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.

Suyash Bagad
Suyash Bagad
Crypto
Cryptography Engineer

B.Tech and M.Tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay, 5+ years in applied cryptography. ex-Aztec → ex-Ingonyama → Aztec.

David Banks
David Banks
Engineering
Aztec Team Lead

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

Guillaume Drevon
Guillaume Drevon
Engineering
Noir Software Engineer

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

Phil Windle
Phil Windle
Engineering
Aztec Team Lead

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

Facundo Carreiro
Facundo Carreiro
Engineering
Software Engineer

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

Lucas Xia
Lucas Xia
Crypto
Cryptography Engineer

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

Grego Juliana
Grego Juliana
Engineering
Software Engineer

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.

Alvaro Rodriguez
Alvaro Rodriguez
Engineering
Software Engineer

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

Lisa Akselrod
Lisa Akselrod
DevRel
Technical Evangelist

BSc in mathematics in UoL. Previously research in Taiko.

Sona Khunti
Sona Khunti
Commercial
Events Marketing Manager

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

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