I'm a Forbes 30u30 full stack developer and cybersecurity expert who architects, leads development teams and implements web, native and blockchain applications. I worked with top companies such as EF, Bosch, Telekom, QANPlatform, Monero Research Labs and CasperLabs among others and am a regular speaker at leading tech conferences around the world.
Consultant & Architect, Misc Companies
May, 2016 - Present
Over the past several years, I've worked with multiple Fortune500 companies, as well as CMC top 10 web3 projects as an Architect, CTO, and CISO, and eventually even onboarded as co-founder in some my top clients.
Lead Developer, Altcoinist
Aug, 2023 - Present
Altcoinist is a Web3 creator monetization platform built on Base, utilizing advanced account abstraction, on-chain recurring payments, and smart ERC4626 vaults.
React
Solidity
SCSS
Product
Management
Team Leadership
Lead Developer, ESMX
Nov, 2022 - Apr, 20235 months
ESMX is a Web3 esports platform that provides access to over 30,000 professional competitors from around the globe.
React
Solidity
Risk management
Team Leadership
Security architecture
Tokenomics
Cryptographer, CasperLabs
Jan, 2019 - Apr, 20212 years 3 months
At Casperlabs, I led the secure migration of IBM's patent database to the Casper network and managed various complex cryptographic primitives.
Python
Rust
Webassembly
React
Client relations
Negotiation
Co-Founder and CISO, QANPlatform
Jan, 2019 - May, 20201 year 4 months
I co-founded QANPlatform, a Layer 1 blockchain that is fully quantum-resistant and designed for general-purpose computation. The project recently raised $18 million.
Team Leadership
Customer relations
Investor relations
Negotiation
Rust
Zero-knowledge
Webassembly
Architecture
Cryptography researcher, Monero
Apr, 2016 - May, 20193 years 1 month
I developed the first version of RTRS RingCT 2.0 and contributed to the scheme through various talks and additional contributions.
Zero-knowledge
Cryptography
Rust
ANSI C
Developer and Cryptography researcher, Ethereum Foundation
Mar, 2016 - Jul, 20182 years 4 months
At the Ethereum Foundation, I focused on privacy-enhancing technologies and eWASM's implementation (Ethereum WebAssembly).
Javascript
Webassembly
ANSI C
Rust
Zero-Knowledge
Cryptography
Information Security Research Analyst, CodingSans
Jan, 2014 - Sep, 20162 years 8 months
Guest Lecturer, ELTE
Dec, 2017 - Nov, 201729 days
At ELTE University, I conducted seminars on a range of advanced cryptography topics, including FHE, ZK, MPC, and PQC.
HTML / JSX
SCSS / CSS / BEM / Styled Components
Javascript / Typescript
React / Next / Astro
Redux / Apollo
Vue / Vite
React Native / Android (Kotlin)
Node
Ruby
Python
Rust
C
Postgres
Redis
Serverless
AWS
G Cloud
Coolify
Caching
Docker / Docker Swarm
Kubernetes
Solidity
EVM
Wasm
Halo2
Circom
Cairo
Zero-Knowledge
FHE
ISO27001
NIST SP800 series
Zero-Trust
Risk management
Incident Response
SIEM / SOAR
Threat intelligence
Malware analysis/Reversing
Architecture design
Technical documentation and communication
Investor relations
Engineering leadership
Business and result-focused mindset
Computer Science, Bachelors, Eotvos Lorand University
Sep, 2013 - May, 2016
Forbes 30 under 30 , Forbes
Awarded on: May 02, 2023
For my work and achievements in cybersecurity.
Various media appearances , Various
Awarded on: Jan 01, 2016
I regularly attend prestigious tech events worldwide and have had my work featured in numerous highly respected journals.
Various event appearances , Various
Awarded on: Jan 01, 2016
I have been a regular speaker at reputable events since the early days of crypto, including HCPP, EDCON, ETHCC, BDAY, and WEB3Summit, among others.
Post-quantum verifiable random functions from ring signatures , IACR
Published on: Dec 01, 2018
A source of verifiable randomness using RLWE as trapdoor and some reconciliation information for proofs.
Circuit friendly, post-quantum dynamic accumulators from RingSIS with logarithmic prover time , IACR
Published on: Oct 10, 2021
ZeroKnowledge-friendly set-membership proofs using RingSIS, where verifiers can be efficiently implemented on 16-bit hardware and even smart contracts.
Advanced mathematics
Martial Arts
Music
Open Source
Privacy
Silur was the best thing to happen to our project. His expertise and experience has taken us to the next level! Though he is recognised as a state of the art blockchain architect, he remains humble. Silur was also involved in helping with our marketing, making use of his considerable experience and amazing networking skills.
Silur, helps us in numerous ways to improve our lending platform. From the beginning he helps as an independent expert and performed lots of special API tests and specific attacks to measure our platform's performance caps endpoint-by-endpoint. Our platform as custodial service store signifiant amounts of customer's money, so the data protection and penetration tests are essential to keep up our services. This is why we appreciate Silur's helping hand!
Silur is an exceptional developer. His passion and dedication are evident in every project he undertakes. At Altcoinist, he showcased remarkable flexibility, adapting seamlessly to our business shifts. His innovative approach consistently delivered creative solutions, making him an invaluable asset to our team. Highly recommended for any development endeavor.
Silur is on a whole different, subatomic level of architecting crypto. He provided us proven methods and guidelines not only from a technical security perspective but made sure everything is game-theoretically correct for the community so there's no selfish, adversarial or unfair outcome for any type of user.
Silur was spot on identifying our needs and offering possibilities based on science. We were already familiar with some of his work, but seeing him working on something that is close to us, was a different level of experience.