Kirk Baird
Executive Director at Sigma Prime
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolKirk Baird is an Executive Director and blockchain security specialist with 7–8 years of experience leading audits and building infrastructure-grade protections for Web3 projects. He combines a Computer Software Engineering and Commerce background from the University of Sydney with hands-on protocol development—contributing to the widely used sigp/lighthouse Ethereum consensus client in Rust—to bridge technical, financial and operational risk. At Sigma Prime he has progressed from security software engineer to leading security assessment teams and owning business strategy, client relationships, and financial planning for the security practice. Kirk is fluent across Solidity, Rust, Go and lower-level languages, and brings uncommon domain depth in consensus, state transition logic and cryptographic auditing. He’s passionate about scalable, resilient blockchain systems and proactively prepares teams for emerging threats such as AI-driven attack vectors.
7 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
The University of SydneySHORE
Github Skills (5)
rust10
staking10
ethereum10
testing10
blockchain9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
sigp/lighthouse
Jan 2019 - Mar 2021
Ethereum consensus client in Rust
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 97 commits, 33 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Kirk contributed to the Ethereum consensus client in Rust, primarily by implementing and testing genesis-related functionalities. Their work included adding tests for `beacon_state` and `beacon_block` structs, modifying these structs to reflect changes in the Ethereum 2.0 specifications, and adding the necessary tests for the new parameters. They also updated data types and constants according to the specifications.
consensusserenityethereumproof-of-stakerust
sigp/milagro_bls
Jun 2019 - Dec 2022
BLS12-381 cryptography using Apache Milagro
Contributions:11 releases, 5 reviews, 124 commits in 3 years 7 months
milagrocryptographybls12-381apacheencryption
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