Amrit Kumar
Chief Operating Officer
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAmrit Kumar is a technology executive and cryptography expert with 11 years of experience building and scaling blockchain and research-driven ventures from the UK. As COO of Alt Research and chairperson of Binarii Labs, he blends operational leadership with investment insight as Co-CIO at Rule72, while previously co-founding Zilliqa and serving as its President and Chief Science Officer. His hands-on background includes academic research roles at NUS and internships at Inria, underpinned by a PhD in Computer Science and formal training in cryptography and mathematics. Notably, he has contributed low-level cryptographic fixes and hash-to-commitment implementations to Zilliqa’s high-throughput public blockchain, demonstrating deep expertise in Schnorr signatures and multi-signature schemes. Comfortable moving between research, product and operations, he excels at turning cryptographic research into production-grade systems. Colleagues describe him as a founder-friendly operator who still writes and debugs core crypto code when it matters.
11 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Université Grenoble AlpesMaster's degree Cryptography, Master's degree Cryptography at National School of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics of GrenobleDiplôme d'ingénieur Computer Science, Diplôme d'ingénieur Computer Science at École PolytechniqueBachelor's degree Mathematics, Bachelor's degree Mathematics at Recruitment
Github Skills (6)
c-language10
zig10
cprogramming-language10
cryptography10
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blockchain10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
Zilliqa/Zilliqa
Jul 2018 - Dec 2018
Zilliqa is the world's first high-throughput public blockchain platform - designed to scale to thousands of transactions per second.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 3 PRs, 8 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Amrit primarily worked on the `src/libCrypto/Schnorr.cpp` and `src/libCrypto/MultiSig.cpp` files, suggesting a focus on cryptographic implementations within the Zilliqa blockchain project. Their contributions include fixing bugs related to key generation, Schnorr signatures, and multi-signature implementations. The user also added constructors and methods for hash-to-commitment schemes, enhancing the cryptographic features of the project. The commits directly addressed issues related to core cryptographic functions.
blockchain-platformzilliqablockchainscalehigh-throughput
Zilliqa/staking-contract
Mar 2020 - Apr 2021
This repository is the central portal that collates together the contracts, documentations around them, unit tests, and scripts to deploy and run the contracts on the network.
Contributions:108 reviews, 196 commits, 19 PRs in 1 year 1 month
unitportalunit-testsdocumentationscontracts
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