Claudia Richoux
Founder at Stealth Startup
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolClaudia Richoux is a founder and software engineer with 11 years of experience building secure, distributed systems and developer tools, now focused on enterprise software for manufacturing. She previously founded Banyan, an encrypted local-first file storage project, and today runs a stealth startup out of New York. Her background includes deep security work at Trail of Bits and Protocol Labs, where she patched critical vulnerabilities and authored FIP-27 for the Filecoin ecosystem. An active open-source contributor, Claudia has contributed bug fixes and consensus/security improvements to high-profile projects like Filecoin’s FVM and Chainsafe’s Forest, and optimized EVM behavior in dapp tools. She blends practical cryptography and systems-level engineering with startup product instincts, and her unusual early research on particle accelerators hints at a long-standing appetite for low-level, high-precision problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science Math coursework, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science Math coursework at University of Chicago
English, French, Spanish, German
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Github Skills (22)
algorithm10
algorithms10
solidity10
evm10
data-structure10
gas-optimization10
filecoin10
ethereum10
blockchain10
data-structures10
error-handling10
rust10
webassembly10
actor-model10
haskell9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
filecoin-project/ref-fvm
Nov 2021 - Jan 2022
Reference implementation of the Filecoin Virtual Machine
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 reviews, 46 commits, 1 PR in 1 month
Contributions summary:Claudia primarily contributed to the core logic and consensus mechanisms of the Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM). Their work involved implementing checks, validations, and corrections within the actor system. The commits demonstrate a focus on improving the system's reliability and security by addressing potential vulnerabilities related to actor creation and consensus rules. They also integrated linters and formatters to improve the code quality and maintainability.
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dapphub/dapptools
Apr 2021 - Apr 2021
Dapp, Seth, Hevm, and more
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 7 commits, 1 PR in 15 days
Contributions summary:Claudia primarily contributed to the Hevm project, focusing on improving the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) implementation. Their work involved fixing bugs related to gas computations, particularly in the MODEXP and SSTORE operations. They also added support for access lists, refactoring transaction types and implementing gas cost calculations, and generally improved the Berlin fork implementation within the codebase.
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