Jeffrey Burdges
Senior Cryptogrpahy Researcher at Parity Technologies
Zug, Zug, Switzerland
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Top SchoolJeffrey Burdges is a senior cryptography researcher and lead protocol designer for Polkadot and Kusama with 15 years of experience bridging deep mathematics and production cryptography. Trained as a mathematician (PhD Rutgers, BA Georgia Tech), he crafts scalable, security-first distributed systems using statistical methods, zero-knowledge proofs, and incentive design, and prefers to implement cryptography himself in Rust. His work spans privacy tooling for networking, authentication, and payments, and he has a track record of turning abstract group-theory insights into practical protocols. Based in Zug, he combines academic rigor from postdoctoral positions across Europe with hands-on software architecture at Parity and the Web3 Foundation. Notably, his background in computational and geometric group theory surfaces in novel approaches to protocol security and scalability.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Mathematics, B.A., Mathematics at Georgia Institute of TechnologyPhD., Mathematics, PhD., Mathematics at Rutgers University
English, French, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
web-application10
servo10
padding10
diffie-hellman10
digital-signature10
diceware10
cryptocurrency10
chat10
formulas10
passphrase10
matrix10
elliptic-curve-cryptography10
sodium10
browser10
aes-gcm10
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
w3f/messaging
Sep 2018 - Sep 2022
Messaging for Web3
Contributions:61 commits, 10 PRs, 37 pushes in 4 years 1 month
ethereumweb3messaging
burdges/isogenies_vdf_uses
May 2019 - Feb 2021
Contributions:54 commits, 35 pushes in 1 year 9 months
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