Summary
Jack 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