Cody Gunton
Research Engineer at Ethereum Foundation
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCody Gunton is a research engineer specializing in programmable cryptography with nine years of experience building and leading teams on zero-knowledge proving systems. Currently on the ZKEVM team at the Ethereum Foundation, he brings deep hands-on expertise from leading Aztec’s Proving Systems team and implementing core zkSNARK protocols in the Barretenberg C++ library. He holds a PhD in Mathematics and has a strong academic foundation from postdoctoral research at the University of Copenhagen, bridging theoretical cryptography with production-grade engineering. Cody is comfortable moving between research and systems: he designs cryptographic primitives and also ships performant C++ implementations used in real-world blockchain stacks. Based in Atlanta, he combines a researcher’s rigor with a pragmatic focus on interoperable, auditable proofs—an asset for teams advancing scalable privacy and verification on Ethereum. An often-overlooked strength is his track record mentoring and teaching complex cryptology concepts, from university instruction to industry onboarding.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
The University of ArizonaBachelor's degree Mathematics, Bachelor's degree Mathematics at New College of Florida
Github Skills (31)
elliptic-curve10
curve10
nlp9
cpp8
speech-recognition8
python8
deep-learning8
natural-language-processing8
tensorflow8
machine-learning8
pytorch8
bert7
transformer7
noir6
cryptography6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
AztecProtocol/barretenberg
Dec 2022 - Mar 2023
Contributions:299 reviews, 93 commits, 109 PRs in 2 months
driftmaps/pinpad-client-maplibre
Jan 2025 - Mar 2025
Contributions:8 reviews, 10 PRs, 28 pushes in 1 month
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