Alex Gluchowski
Co-Founder & CEO at Matter Labs
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Gluchowski is a serial founder and engineering leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling web and blockchain platforms, currently co-founder and CEO of Matter Labs, the team behind zkSync for Ethereum scaling using zero-knowledge proofs. He blends deep crypto research (implementing Groth16 verifiers and zk-SNARK integration) with product-facing work—contributing to zkSync’s front-end wallet UX and deployment pipelines—to ship secure, usable systems. His background spans building marketplaces and SaaS platforms from MVP to exit in Europe, leading distributed engineering teams, and architecting payment, compliance, and internationalization systems. Comfortable across the stack (C/C++, Go, React, Solidity) and operations, he has repeatedly turned research prototypes into production-grade infrastructure. Based in New York with an M.Sc. from TU Berlin, he pairs academic rigor with a pragmatic, growth-focused founder’s mindset. An underappreciated angle: he still contributes small but impactful UX and DevOps fixes, reflecting a hands-on leadership style that keeps him close to users and deployments.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc. Computer Science, M.Sc. Computer Science at Technische Universität Berlin
Ukrainian, Russian, German, English, French, Hebrew
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Github Skills (29)
javascript10
solidity10
cicd10
zksnark10
vue10
ethereum10
cryptography10
zk10
smart-contracts10
vue-jsx10
scripting9
daap9
zksync9
firebase9
shell9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
matter-labs/zksync
Nov 2018 - Jul 2021
zkSync: trustless scaling and privacy engine for Ethereum
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1031 commits, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Alex implemented a demo circuit, generating a verifier contract and demonstrating its functionality. The contributions focused on the integration of a Groth16 verifier, suggesting a focus on zk-SNARKs and related cryptography. The code modifications generated the Solidity smart contract code, incorporating the elliptic curve operations and parameters.
ethereumzksyncteam-core
matter-labs/zksync-wallet-vue
May 2020 - May 2021
zkSync Lite web wallet
Role in this project:Front-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Front-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:111 commits, 5 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the front-end of the zkSync Lite web wallet, fixing typos, improving wording, and updating links and text in the UI. They also made modifications to deployment scripts, specifically addressing production and staging environments, checking branch correctness, and updating deployment configurations using Firebase. Furthermore, they disabled PWA functionality and adjusted wallet onboarding configurations, indicating a focus on improving the user experience.
zksyncdappethereumlite
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