Matteo Ferretti
Owner at Nayma B.V.
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolMatteo Ferretti is a pragmatic technology founder and systems engineer with 14 years of professional experience building complex, production-grade software and leading engineering teams from embedded UI to cryptographic back-ends. As owner of Nayma B.V. and former CTO/Head of Technology at Dusk, he has driven architecture and delivery for privacy-preserving blockchain tooling, including hands-on contributions to a pure-Rust PLONK ZK proof implementation. His background spans product-grade front-end systems (Firefox DevTools, TomTom) to low-level VM and cryptographic primitives, enabling him to bridge high-level product needs and deep technical constraints. Matteo is comfortable shipping in diverse languages and environments, from JavaScript and React to Rust and VM design, and often blends systems design with practical developer ergonomics. Colleagues value his ability to convert academic crypto concepts into maintainable engineering (e.g., custom gates for variable-base scalar multiplication) while keeping product timelines on track. Based in Amsterdam, he pairs entrepreneurial ownership with a long history of cross-disciplinary engineering and UI sensibility.
15 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Global NLP TrainingMathematics and Computer Sciences, Mathematics and Computer Sciences at A. Volta
English, Italian
Github Skills (6)
rust10
cryptography10
data-structure9
algorithm9
data-structures9
algorithms9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
dusk-network/plonk
Aug 2020 - Oct 2021
Pure Rust implementation of the PLONK ZKProof System done by the Dusk team
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 101 reviews, 9 commits in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Matteo primarily contributed to the `plonk` repository, which involves a pure Rust implementation of the PLONK ZKProof System. Their work included reverting a commit related to variable base scalar multiplication and subsequently re-introducing a custom gate for variable base scalar multiplication. They also added a public unsafe `evaluate_witness()` function to the composer and made several small fixes, with the most significant change being the introduction of the variable base scalar multiplication custom gate within the project.
rustcryptographyzero-knowledgeplonk
ZER0/bero
Aug 2018 - May 2019
Contributions:7 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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