Misha Volkhov
CTO & Co-Founder at Stealth Startup
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMikhail Volkhov is a cryptography engineer and researcher with 11 years of experience, combining a PhD from the University of Edinburgh with practical contributions to high-profile crypto projects like Cardano and Daedalus. He specializes in zero-knowledge systems, privacy-preserving identity, and DeFi, bringing both research depth and hands-on engineering—evidenced by installer and wallet API refinements in IOHK repositories. His background spans top research labs and industry teams (Ethereum Foundation, O(1) Labs, Input Output), where he bridges formal cryptography and production systems. Based in Edinburgh, he pairs a fondness for NixOS and Org-mode with a philosophical bent, which surfaces in meticulous, long-term thinking about system reliability and privacy.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Cryptography, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Cryptography at The University of EdinburghMaster's degree Cryptography, Master's degree Cryptography at Ecole normale supérieureBachelor's degree Informatics, Bachelor's degree Informatics at ITMO University
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Github Skills (10)
configuration-management10
nsis10
api10
apidoc10
haskell10
windows-installer10
refactor9
refactoring9
build-automation8
software-design8
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
input-output-hk/cardano-sl
Oct 2016 - Feb 2018
Cryptographic currency implementing Ouroboros PoS protocol
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1128 commits, 262 PRs, 1362 pushes in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Misha primarily focused on refactoring the Cardano SL project, specifically renaming and modularizing components related to the wallet web API. They also contributed to code improvements, introducing logging enhancements for debugging and fixing build or deployment issues. Furthermore, the user's commits included integration work, such as implementing a new update version script.
cardanocryptographyposadacryptographic
input-output-hk/daedalus
Feb 2017 - Nov 2017
The open source cryptocurrency wallet for ada, built to grow with the community
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 11 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Misha primarily focused on modifying the Windows installer configuration file. Their commits addressed issues related to launcher parameters, including adding and removing flags for logging and other node configurations. They made several updates to the installer path and resolved build issues. Additionally, the user fixed a trailing quote issue within the configuration.
cryptocurrency
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