Samuel Wong
Lead Blockchain Security Researcher at OpenZeppelin
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolSamuel Wong is a Lead Blockchain Security Researcher based in the San Francisco Bay Area with nine years of experience bridging applied cryptography, high-throughput systems, and production security audits. A Stanford MS graduate and former researcher at the Future of Digital Currency Initiative, he has engineered scalable exchange primitives and sharding policies capable of 100k+ TPS and now focuses on auditing smart contracts and advancing zero-knowledge proofs like SNARKs. He has led cross-continental engineering teams to build Solana/Serum trading APIs, market-making automation, and anti–front-running off-chain services, bringing institutional traders into DeFi. Comfortable moving between research and product, he pairs formal cryptographic insight with pragmatic engineering to improve privacy and usability in Web3.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Mathematics/Economics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Mathematics/Economics at Claremont McKenna CollegeMaster of Science - MS Statistics: Data Science, Master of Science - MS Statistics: Data Science at Stanford University
Spanish, Chinese, English
Github Skills (22)
javascript9
statistics9
open-source9
data-analysis8
python8
machine-learning8
data-science8
scikit-learn7
scikit7
sdk4
blockchain3
computation3
trading2
golang2
cryptocurrency2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
sandymule/sandymule.github.io
Sep 2016 - Jan 2022
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 5 months
koalateectrl/speedex-parallelize
Jun 2021 - Sep 2021
Contributions:209 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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