Clément Walter
Engineering at Zama
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolClément Walter is an interdisciplinary engineer and entrepreneur with a PhD in computational mathematics and over a decade of experience building production-ready AI, cryptography, and reliability-focused systems. Based in Paris, he has co-founded and led technical teams at Kakarot zkEVM and multiple startups, and now scales confidential protocols at Zama—bringing research-grade thinking to product and ops. His background spans deep learning for computer vision, medical imaging at IBM, and advanced Monte Carlo research from CEA, which gives him a rare blend of theoretical rigor and hands-on engineering. An active open-source contributor, he improved test automation, dependency management, and CI for the notable Kakarot zkEVM project, showing a practical focus on maintainability and quality. Equally comfortable in C-suite strategy and low-level tooling, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with a tinkerer’s curiosity—he’s even designed handmade sandals and shipped consumer products.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Mathématiques computationnelles et appliquées, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Mathématiques computationnelles et appliquées at Université Paris CitéIngénieur civil des Mines de Paris Geostatistics, Ingénieur civil des Mines de Paris Geostatistics at Mines Paris - PSLBaccalauréat Science, Baccalauréat Science at Fénelon Sainte MarieMathematics Physics Engineering Sciences, Mathematics Physics Engineering Sciences at Lycée Sainte-Geneviève de Versailles
English, Italian, German, French
Stackoverflow
5,044reputation
789kreached
76answers
127questions
r
top-5%
Github Skills (23)
pytest10
python10
cairo-lang10
r9
cicd9
evm9
ethereum9
automation9
automations9
smart-contracts8
github-ci7
python-poetry7
githubaction-workflow7
poe7
macos6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
kkrt-labs/kakarot
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
Kakarot is a zkEVM written in Cairo, leveraging the STARK proof system.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:6 releases, 2069 reviews, 58 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Clément primarily focused on enhancing the Kakarot zkEVM project through Python-based dependency management, linting, and testing. They implemented poetry for dependency management and integrated linters (black & isort) to improve code quality and maintainability. Additionally, they added tests, including test coverage enhancements and the introduction of a new testing approach utilizing `pytest.mark.parametrize`. Furthermore, the user integrated with the Continuous Integration tools, by using xdist, and fixed some issues related to the integration of github actions.
layer2cairo-langleveragingethereumzero-knowledge
kkrt-labs/kaka-swap
Feb 2023 - Feb 2023
Uniswap V2 fork deployed in kakarot
Contributions:8 reviews, 36 commits, 4 PRs in 14 days
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.