Jack Gilcrest
Vice Chair Of Smart Contracts - Blockchain Cross Sector Council at InfraGard National Members Alliance
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolJack Gilcrest is a Web3 engineering leader and founder with eight years of experience applying zero-knowledge cryptography and smart contracts to real-world problems. As Vice Chair of Smart Contracts at InfraGard and CEO/co-founder of Mach 34, he bridges nonprofit R&D, enterprise consulting, and product-focused reduction-to-practice for privacy and scalability on distributed ledgers. He has led Solidity engineering and token architecture for production deployments across Ethereum, Gnosis, and Polygon, and coordinated projects supported by the Ethereum Foundation’s Privacy and Scaling Explorations team. Jack combines hands-on implementation—covering on-chain, backend, and devops—with education and content creation to help enterprises and public-sector stakeholders modernize EDI and reduce operational overhead. Based in Denver, he is known for turning complex cryptographic research into auditable, deployable systems and for mentoring student and community projects through regional consortiums and guilds.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Miami University
Github Skills (75)
solidity9
docker-compose9
chain9
circuit9
circom9
circomlib9
noir9
monorepo8
lookup-table8
proofs8
verify8
javascript8
smart-contracts8
to-do8
docker8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
zkemail/zkemail.nr
Jul 2024 - Feb 2025
ZK Email in Noir
Contributions:12 releases, 56 PRs, 104 pushes in 7 months
BattleZips/BattleZips-Circom
Dec 2021 - Oct 2022
Zero-knowledge arithmetic circuit implementation for on-chain Battleship Game
Contributions:2 reviews, 69 commits, 11 PRs in 9 months
arithmeticlayer2zerozkpknowledge
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