Kai Geffen
Technical Advisor And Community Manager at ZKPodcast
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKai Geffen is a founder and versatile software engineer with 12 years of professional experience and a decade of formal education in computer science. Based in New York, he builds end-to-end products—from leading engineering and gameplay at Celestial TCG to architecting Python and TypeScript systems as a senior engineer—while also advising on Zero-Knowledge proofs and cryptography. He combines client-facing project management with hands-on implementation, having delivered commercial audio-mixing software and led nonprofit website redesigns. A relentless learner, Kai explores functional paradigms and differential privacy, bringing research-driven thinking to pragmatic product decisions. Notably, he has translated complex ZK concepts for investors and communities, bridging deep crypto interests with real-world product fit.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of Massachusetts AmherstAD Mechanical Engineering, AD Mechanical Engineering at Greenfield Community College
Github Skills (15)
virtual-machine8
risc8
blender8
javascript8
verifiable8
risc-v8
react8
cryptography7
typescript7
circuit6
rust6
microarchitecture6
python5
zk3
programming-language1
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
KaiGeffen/Celestial-Server-Legacy
Sep 2020 - Feb 2025
Multiplayer card game made with Python
Contributions:1 release, 6 PRs, 285 pushes in 4 years 5 months
pythongamecard-gamemultiplayeronline-game
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