Gijs Van Laer
CTO & Co-Founder at XFA
Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolGijs Van Laer is a cryptography-focused CTO and co-founder with a decade of hands-on experience building secure software and implementing cryptographic protocols. He holds a PhD in cryptography from Johns Hopkins (advised by Matt Green) and has combined academic research with industry roles at Bolt Labs and as an information security advisor, bridging theoretical rigor and practical engineering. Known for secure code reviews, threat modeling and protocol implementation, he has led security efforts from CISO roles to startup leadership. Based in Antwerp, he brings a mathematician’s precision to product decisions and a proven ability to translate advanced cryptographic ideas into deployable systems. An uncommon strength is his dual track record across research, pentesting and executive leadership, enabling pragmatic security trade-offs under real-world constraints.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of science, Master of science at University of AntwerpJohns Hopkins UniversityDon Bosco Hoboken T.I.Erasmus exchange, Erasmus exchange at University of Bucharest
Dutch, English, French, Romanian, German
Github Skills (59)
zcash10
mpc10
reward10
lightning9
bolt9
anonymous9
payment9
tezos9
beancount9
wallet8
zk8
crypto8
dfinity8
sat-solver8
cryptography8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
gijsvl/groth-sahai
May 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:46 commits, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
boltlabs-inc/emp-sh2pc
Dec 2019 - Oct 2020
Semi-honest Two Party Computation Based on Garbled Circuits.
Contributions:3 PRs, 39 pushes, 4 branches in 10 months
computationpartycircuitssemigarbled-circuits
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