Florian Kluge
Board Member at Zeko Labs Inc.
Bangkok, Thailand
Summary
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Top SchoolFlorian Kluge is an engineering leader and board director with eight years of experience specializing in zero-knowledge cryptography, distributed systems, and Web3 infrastructure. Based in Bangkok, he leads the o1js SDK team at O(1) Labs and serves as an employee-elected board member, helping shape the future of zkApps and programmable ZK tooling. His hands-on contributions to high-profile open-source projects like Mina Protocol and o1js include implementing transaction/event APIs and exposing verification keys, bridging low-level crypto with developer-friendly TypeScript interfaces. He also advises startups, runs his own venture ctq5.io, and brings prior systems engineering and teaching experience from academia and industry. Known for making complex verifiable computation accessible, he combines product-minded leadership with deep backend craftsmanship.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom, Computer Science, -, Diplom, Computer Science, - at Technische Universität Dresden
Github Skills (12)
smart-contracts10
typescript10
typescripts10
cryptography10
blockchain10
ocaml10
typescript-types10
testing9
zkp9
zk9
zksnark9
javascript7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
o1-labs/o1js
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
TypeScript framework for zk-SNARKs and zkApps
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 556 reviews, 452 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Florian implemented event fetching functionality for the local blockchain. They introduced `fetchEvents` for the `Mina` and `MockMina` interfaces and updated the local blockchain's `sendTransaction` method to store transaction events. The user also modified the `SmartContract` class to include `fetchEvents` functionality to allow retrieval of emitted events from the zkApp.
snarksjavascript-frameworkjavascriptzk-snarksjavascript-typescript
MinaProtocol/mina
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
Mina is a cryptocurrency protocol with a constant size blockchain, improving scaling while maintaining decentralization and security.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:60 reviews, 65 commits, 32 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Florian primarily focused on enhancing the `snarkyjs_bindings_lib.ml` file, adding functionalities to manipulate network state and interact with the blockchain's core logic. They implemented the `apply_json_transaction` function, allowing for external transactions. Furthermore, the user removed dummy code and exposed account permissions to Snarkyjs, increasing the scope of the interface. The user also worked on making verification keys accessible through base64.
minaethereumsecurityblockchainocaml
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