Matthew Di Ferrante

ZK Labs Founder, Cryptographer and Lead Auditor. I'm a software engineer with fairly broad knowledge of the computer science field as a whole. All I really care about these days is blockchains, formal methods and cryptography. I regularly speak at information security and blockchain events, and am active in the Ethereum community. Highlights: * Founder of ZK Labs, an Ethereum focused Smart Contract Security and Development firm * Winner of Smart Contract Security at 2016 Thomson Reuters HackETHon (Ethereum Hackathon) * Co-author on academic treatise "Towards Blockchain Transaction Privacy", presented at 2nd IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy * Panel Speaker at 2017 March event at Italian Parliament on using Blockchains for governmental functions * Mentor and Co-organizer at monthly Blockchain Developer Workshop which introduces non-blockchain devs to Ethereum development * Early Ethereum adopter with deep technical knowledge of core ethereum codebase, cryptography, and formal verification / security * Developer with 6 years experience in wide variety of areas, from kernel and embedded development to networking, crypto and statistics * Proficient in Go, Python, C, C++ and Solidity