Vladislav Volosnikov
Senior Protocol Engineer at Matter Labs
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVladislav Volosnikov is a Senior Protocol Engineer with a decade of experience focused on blockchain, DeFi and EVM internals, now working on zk and L2 infrastructure at Matter Labs. He led development of the Algebra DEX protocol—responsible for core architecture, math, and smart contract security—with over $100M TVL in his contracts and a personal portfolio exceeding $200M in deployed value. A pragmatic engineer and fuzz-testing enthusiast, he pairs deep protocol knowledge with hands-on optimization (e.g., speeding witness generation in zkSync Era) and a track record of passing audits and winning bounties. Vladislav combines strong academic CS foundations from Saint Petersburg State University with open-source contributions to projects like OpenZeppelin and UniswapV4, and brings cross-disciplinary interests in crypto, cryptography, and quantitative finance.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Saint Petersburg State University
Russian, English
Github Skills (9)
asynchronous10
zksync10
parallel-processing10
aggregations10
rust10
async10
blockchain9
object-store9
io9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
matter-labs/zksync-era
May 2024 - Jun 2026
zkSync era
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:106 reviews, 58 PRs, 197 pushes in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Vladislav primarily focused on optimizing and improving the witness generation process within the zkSync Era project. Their work involved refactoring and parallelizing key parts of the witness generation, specifically related to node and leaf aggregation. The commits indicate efforts to reduce data duplication, speed up processing, and manage memory usage. These optimizations were crucial for improving the efficiency of the proving pipeline.
zksync
matter-labs/zksync-protocol
Aug 2024 - Jul 2026
ZKsync protocol libraries
Contributions:31 reviews, 46 PRs, 77 pushes in 1 year 10 months
zksync
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