Simon Perriard
Blockchain Security Engineer at ChainSecurity
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolSimon Perriard is a blockchain security engineer and smart contract auditor with nine years of hands-on experience, currently auditing protocols and building ZK circuit reviews at ChainSecurity in Zurich. He holds advanced cybersecurity training from ETH Zürich and EPFL, combining formal academic rigor with practical penetration testing and secure coding experience. His trajectory from backend and application development at Novative to Master’s research and successive roles at ChainSecurity reflects deep domain specialization in smart contracts and zero-knowledge proofs. Simon is both an auditor and a ZK proofs enthusiast, routinely translating complex cryptographic constructs into actionable security findings. Colleagues describe him as methodical and curious—he brings infantry discipline from Swiss military service to high-stakes security reviews. He balances vulnerability discovery with pragmatic remediation guidance, helping teams ship safer blockchain systems.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Cybersecurity, Master's degree, Cybersecurity at ETH ZürichBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Collège St-Michel / Kollegium St. Michael
French, English, German
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Github Skills (53)
programming-language10
solidity10
evm10
openzeppelin10
contract10
dapps-development10
security10
ethereum10
blockchain10
smart-contracts10
cpp10
decentralized-finance9
foundry8
circuit7
cryptocurrency7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
simon-perriard/saft
Feb 2022 - Apr 2022
Static analyzer for Substrate FRAME's pallets
Contributions:77 commits, 9 PRs, 114 pushes in 1 month
security-auditsubstratepolkadot-blockchainstatic-analyzerframe
simon-perriard/Amy-Compiler-Optimization
Dec 2018 - Dec 2020
Compiler for Amy language written in Scala
Contributions:21 PRs, 33 pushes, 11 branches in 2 years
macrosamymetaprogrammingcompilerscala
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