Akilesh Tangella
Founding Engineer at NEBRA Labs
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAkilesh Tangella is a founding engineer with 11 years of experience driving research-forward engineering in zero-knowledge proofs and privacy-preserving Web3 infrastructure. He currently builds ZKP scaling and composition tools at NEBRA Labs after helping Webb develop foundational privacy middleware for Ethereum and adjacent ecosystems. Trained at the University of Pennsylvania with dual summa cum laude degrees in Computer Science and Economics from the Jerome Fisher M&T context, he blends rigorous academic research (including a highly cited paper from TTI-Chicago) with pragmatic product delivery. Comfortable at the intersection of cryptography, protocol design, and developer tooling, he moves between research prototypes and production-ready systems. Active on GitHub and Twitter, he communicates technical ideas broadly while staying hands-on with code. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic researcher who turns complex cryptographic primitives into usable infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer Science, Summa Cum Laude, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer Science, Summa Cum Laude at University of PennsylvaniaJerome Fisher M&T ProgramBachelor of Science - BS, Economics (Concentration in Finance), Summa Cum Laude, Bachelor of Science - BS, Economics (Concentration in Finance), Summa Cum Laude at The Wharton School
Github Skills (62)
threshold10
solidity10
blockchain10
evm9
ethereum9
ecdsa9
mpc9
smart-contracts9
trust8
key-rotation8
polkadot8
eigen8
cryptography8
substrate8
integrity7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
NebraZKP/upa
Aug 2024 - Nov 2024
UPA is the proof aggregation engine built by NEBRA team.
Contributions:20 reviews, 39 PRs, 67 pushes in 3 months
Poseidon-ZKP/zkvote-contract
May 2023 - Jun 2023
Contributions:18 reviews, 25 PRs, 72 pushes in 1 month
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