👾 I work with the brightest && kindest minds in the blockchain space
✨ Proud of being a Senior (Consensus) Engineer at Espresso Systems, ✨
✨ building the future of (decentralized) L2 scaling solutions ✨
👾 My career interests and skills
- Engineering → Rust, Python, Solidity
- Security → Cryptography, Privacy, ZKPs
- DeFi → Consensus, Infra, Optimization, MEV
- Teamwork → Management, Kindness, Impact
👾 Cool experiences I've had the opportunity to learn from in the past
- Blockchain researcher and engineer, grantee from Ethereum and other DAOs
- Head of blockchain engineering at Shopify (and one of the team's six founders)
- Senior backend engineer at Apple (CoreOS team), Etsy (Sec team), Yelp (Sec team)
- PhD in Theoretical Astrophysics at the University of New York (full scholarship) 🇺🇸
- Graduate researcher at the Los Alamos National Lab and the Brookhaven National Lab
- Summer undergrad research scholarship at the NASA Goddard Space Center and CUA
- BSc in Physics at the University of Sao Paulo (Engineering School, Physics Institute) 🇧🇷
- Burned my graphic video card at 14 while installing Linux Slackware, moved to Debian
👾 Cool things I've published in the past
- Post-graduate books on Group Theory, Quantum Field Theory, Quantum Information
- Peer-reviewed scientific publications on Astrophysics and Nuclear Physics
- Published book on Data Structures and Algorithms, paper on Complex Networks
- Papers on Physics and Computer Science; articles on Linux, Security, Python
- Go Outside Labs is my open-source R&D playground for engineering problems
- Former blog chmod a+x singularity.sh (cryptography, machine learning, CTFs)
👾 Our lives as researchers && engineers (&& alchemists)
