Ilia Shirobokov
Head Of Blockchain at ADI Foundation
Limassol, Cyprus
Summary
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Top SchoolIlia Shirobokov is a product-minded protocol leader with a decade of experience building and shipping advanced zk-based infrastructure and institutional-grade Layer 2s. As Head of Blockchain at ADI Foundation he owned ADI Chain’s technical direction, mainnet launch, security programs and developer relations for institutional clients. Previously he led architecture and product teams designing zkSharding, decentralized prover networks and zkBridges, translating deep cryptography into market-aligned product pivots. He combines hands-on cryptography engineering—co-designing PLONK-based Placeholder and one of the first Mina↔Ethereum zkBridges—with strategic communication that aligns execs, engineers and external partners. Based in Limassol, Cyprus, Ilia is known for turning protocol research into auditable, production-ready systems and for building developer ecosystems from zero. An uncommon trait: he pairs low-level crypto audits with pragmatic product discovery to ensure research delivers tangible business outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Engineering, Master's degree Computer Engineering at Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University
Github Skills (70)
elliptic-curve-cryptography10
placeholder10
cryptanalysis10
foundation10
circuit10
keccak10
hmac10
mina10
crypto9
fhe9
hash-functions9
encryption9
cpp9
cryptography9
ethereum9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
NilFoundation/zkllvm-blueprint
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
Circuit components definition library for zkLLVM circuit compiler
Contributions:7 reviews, 372 commits, 11 PRs in 10 months
cryptographynilr1cszero-knowledgecircuit
corestario/HERB
Jan 2019 - Nov 2019
Homomorphic Encryption Randomness Beacon
Contributions:134 commits, 1 comment in 10 months
cryptographyshamir-secret-sharingprngminhashtla
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