Jason Vranek
Co-Founder & CTO Puffer Finance
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Vranek is a Co-Founder and CTO with nine years of experience at the intersection of software, hardware, and cryptography, currently leading Puffer Finance from the San Francisco Bay Area. He transitioned from robotics and high-frequency market design into verifiable computing, publishing research on front-running in decentralized exchanges and building Chisel-based hardware generators that accelerate heavy cryptographic primitives like NTTs for FHE and ZK proofs. He prototypes in Python and implements hardware generators in Chisel/Scala targeting FPGAs, enjoying the agility of software-like hardware development. As a grad student researcher and former Chainlink research engineer, he blends academic rigor with product-minded engineering and has taught computer architecture at UCSC. A tinkerer by trade, he also explores automatic theorem provers, deep RL, quantum computing, and creative uses of Jupyter Notebooks.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa Cruz
Github Skills (42)
layer210
exchange-server9
ethereum9
staking9
zk9
taiko8
smart-contracts8
intel-sgx8
remote-attestation8
solidity8
hardware-designs8
simulation8
trading8
keystore8
jupyter7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
eth-fabric/constraints-specs
Dec 2024 - Sep 2025
Constraints API
Contributions:10 reviews, 17 PRs, 32 pushes in 9 months
eth-fabric/website
Mar 2025 - Apr 2026
Contributions:1 review, 10 PRs, 38 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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