Martun Karapetyan
Senior Cryptography Developer at Neon EVM
Perímetro Urbano Armenia, Quindío, Colombia
Summary
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Top SchoolMartun Karapetyan is a Senior Cryptography Developer with eight years of hands-on experience building high-performance C++ systems and specialized expertise in zero-knowledge proofs and privacy-preserving cryptocurrencies. He has shipped core cryptographic primitives and protocol implementations—most notably fixing and optimizing the Sigma algorithm in the privacy-focused Firo repository—and has improved prover performance with novel contributions like a LogUp lookup argument and a distributed FRI protocol. His background spans cryptographic research (PhD work), distributed storage and DB index design, and production-scale engineering at companies including Google and Alteryx, reflecting a blend of theoretical depth and pragmatic optimization. As a technical leader he has mentored small teams, led parallelization efforts, and driven measurable gains in proving efficiency and system throughput. Based in Armenia, Colombia, he combines academic rigor with open-source impact and a track record of protecting user privacy at the protocol level.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
PHD Cryptography, PHD Cryptography at National Academy of SciencesHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Quantum Private High SchoolBachelor Informatics and Applied mathematics, Bachelor Informatics and Applied mathematics at Yerevan State UniversityMaster's degree Computer and Information Sciences department, Master's degree Computer and Information Sciences department at American University of Armenia
English, Russian, Armenian
Github Skills (13)
algorithm10
crypt10
crypto10
sigmajs10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
cryptography10
blockchain10
secp256k19
gt8
mstest8
serialization7
data-serialization7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
firoorg/firo
Oct 2018 - Jun 2019
The privacy-focused cryptocurrency
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:64 commits, 14 PRs, 50 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Martun implemented and fixed the sigma algorithm within the privacy-focused cryptocurrency repository. Their contributions involved modifications to the `GroupElement.cpp` file, indicating work with cryptographic primitives. Further commits involved debugging and testing the sigma implementation, specifically addressing unit tests and serialization. These changes suggest a focus on core cryptographic functionality and the underlying mathematical algorithms of the cryptocurrency.
zkpmerkle-tree-proof-of-workzero-knowledgeprivacy-focusedfocused
NilFoundation/actor-math
Mar 2023 - Jun 2024
Contributions:13 reviews, 24 PRs, 55 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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