ENGINEER
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Industry Experience
Privacy Software Engineer, Senior
Circle
May 2025 — PresentVisit Website
- Building Arc Network, a EVM protocol built on top of USDC
- Private EVM protocol with consensus-compatible attestations (Read more here)
- Investigating adoption of Post-Quantum Cryptography for Hybrid Public-key Encryption
Network Architect & Systems Engineer, Lead
GatewayDAO
Mar 2023 — May 2025
Blockchain Engineer, IC4
Coinbase
Jun 2022 — Jan 2023
Software Engineer, SWE I
Amazon
Aug 2020 — May 2022
Software Engineer Intern
IBM Blockchain Garage
Jun 2019 — Sep 2019
Extreme Blue Intern
IBM Aspera
Jun 2018 — Sep 2018May 2025 — Present9 mo
- Building Arc Network, a EVM protocol built on top of USDC
- Private EVM protocol with consensus-compatible attestations (Read more here)
- Investigating adoption of Post-Quantum Cryptography for Hybrid Public-key Encryption
Academic Background
Computer Security (M.S.)
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Jul 2023 — PresentVisit Website
- Coursework: Applied Cryptography, Network Security, Software Security, Malware Analysis, Blockchain Security
- Research: Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning, Blockchain Security, Blockchain Interoperability
Research Advisor
BlockLab, San Diego Supercomputer Center
Aug 2019 — Present
CS Researcher
Dorrestein Lab, Skaggs School of Pharmacy
Mar 2017 — Jun 2020Computer Science (B.S.)
UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering
Sep 2016 — Jun 2020Jul 2023 — Present2 yr 7 mo
- Coursework: Applied Cryptography, Network Security, Software Security, Malware Analysis, Blockchain Security
- Research: Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning, Blockchain Security, Blockchain Interoperability
Notable Projects
A comprehensive benchmarking suite for Zero-Knowledge membership circuits. It implements and evaluates various SNARK protocols (including Groth16 and Marlin) and finite fields to optimize privacy-preserving group authentication without revealing individual identities.
Rustarkworkszk-SNARKsWhite Paper
An encrypted distributed file system built on SeaweedFS, featuring end-to-end encryption and proxy re-encryption. Designed for secure, decentralized data storage at scale, it protects data confidentiality while maintaining high performance for billions of files.
GoLangSeaweedFSCryptographyDistributed SystemsDocker