Ariel Rodriguez
Senior Privacy Engineer at Ethereum Foundation
Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolAri Rodriguez is a cryptographer-turned-CTO and co-founder of Arrakis Finance, bringing eight years of hands-on experience building secure blockchain infrastructure and threshold cryptography systems. Based in Zug, he has driven engineering and research at frontier organizations including Gelato Digital, Faction Cooperative, and OFF-THE-GRID, where he focused on multiparty computation and imagining next-generation cybersecurity. He combines deep academic curiosity—evident from a background teaching math and theater at Columbia and Brown—with practical product instincts for programmable finance. Ari is equally comfortable authoring research-grade cryptographic protocols and shipping production blockchain services, bridging the gap between inventing primitives and operationalizing them. A former educator, he retains a knack for distilling complex ideas for diverse audiences, which informs his leadership and developer advocacy.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Modern Culture and Media, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Modern Culture and Media at Brown UniversityMaster of Fine Arts - MFA, Theatre/Theater, Master of Fine Arts - MFA, Theatre/Theater at Columbia University
French, Spanish
Github Skills (68)
compound10
curve10
truffle10
solidity9
vault9
web3py9
decentralized-exchange9
ethereum9
uniswap9
pulse9
erc209
sdk8
modular-arithmetic8
cryptocurrency8
cython8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
kassandraoftroy/erc5564-contracts
Sep 2023 - May 2025
ERC5564 smart contracts for stealth addresses protocols on evm chains
Contributions:1 review, 36 PRs, 32 pushes in 1 year 8 months
evmsmart-contracts
gelatodigital/g-uni-v1-core
Apr 2021 - Apr 2022
G-UNI Pools are managed ERC20 Wrappers around Uniswap V3 Liquidity Positions
Contributions:46 commits, 12 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 year
erc20uniswap
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