Iraklis Leontiadis
Head Security Architect at Silence Laboratories
Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
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Top SchoolIraklis Leontiadis is a security and cryptography leader with 11 years of experience bridging academic research and production-grade privacy technologies, currently serving as Head Security Architect at Silence Laboratories in Lausanne. He has led cryptography teams at fintech and privacy-focused startups including ZenGo, Parfin and Heliax, and earlier held senior research roles at EPFL, Inpher and INRIA. His work spans privacy-preserving machine learning, applied cryptographic protocol design, and security auditing, with a track record of turning research prototypes into client-facing, compliant solutions. Trained with a PhD from Télécom Paris and a strong academic pedigree across Europe and the US, he brings methodological rigor to product security decisions. Colleagues appreciate that he combines hands-on engineering with strategic leadership, often stepping into client-facing roles to translate complex crypto into practical value. Based in Switzerland, he’s known for navigating the intersection of cutting-edge crypto research and real-world deployment constraints.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Computer Science, MSc Computer Science at Athens University of Economics and BusinessBachelor Computer Science, Bachelor Computer Science at University of CreteDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at Télécom Paris
Github Skills (63)
consensus10
erlang10
modular10
elixir10
reference-implementation10
distributed-systems10
ethereum10
cryptography10
blockchain10
protocols10
rust10
p2p10
operating-system10
elliptic-curve9
ssl9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
leontiad/leontiad.github.io
Aug 2017 - Feb 2025
Contributions:89 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 7 months
leontiad/reth
Jan 2024 - Feb 2024
Modular, contributor-friendly and blazing-fast implementation of the Ethereum protocol, in Rust
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 24 days
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