Summary
Aleksei Vambol is a cryptography researcher and engineer with a PhD in Computer Science and around three years of hands-on experience building and accelerating zk-SNARK systems and symmetric cryptography primitives. He has contributed to practical prover optimizations, finite-field arithmetic acceleration, and the design/implementation of partial substitution–permutation networks, blending deep number-theoretic insight with production-oriented software engineering. His background includes academic lecturing in theoretical and applied cryptology, which complements his applied work at projects like Taiko Labs, Lightscale, and Zpoken. Based in Tartu, Estonia, Aleksei’s profile combines rigorous academic training with a track record of shipping cryptographic components used in modern proof systems—an uncommon mix that makes him fluent in both proofs and performant implementations.
3 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
PhD in Computer Science Information Technology, PhD in Computer Science Information Technology at National Aerospace University -'Kharkiv Aviation Institute'
English, Ukrainian, Russian