Will Corcoran
Research Coordinator
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWill Corcoran is a protocol coordination leader who translates ambitious research into deployable upgrades at the Ethereum Foundation, currently co-leading the Protocol R&D cluster and driving projects like Ethproofs (real-time proving) and PQ Interop (post-quantum consensus). He specializes in aligning distributed stakeholders and designing communication systems to remove blockers where no formal hierarchy exists, enabling measurable wins—Ethproofs coordinated 13 teams across 8 zkVMs yielding 1M+ proofs, 36x latency improvement, and 433x cost reduction in under a year. Prior to crypto he managed complex public–private architecture projects, bringing a practiced knack for consensus-building and project delivery to technical ecosystems. Based in New York with cross-disciplinary training in architecture and engineering, he combines product-focused rigor with ecosystem stewardship to shepherd high-risk, high-impact technical transitions.
4 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Architecture (M.Arch.), Architecture, Master of Architecture (M.Arch.), Architecture at University of Illinois ChicagoBachelor of Architecture (B.Arch.), Architecture, Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch.), Architecture at University of Nebraska-LincolnMaster of Engineering (M.Eng.), Product-Architecture and Engineering, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Product-Architecture and Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology
Github Skills (35)
crypto10
identity10
storage10
bitcoin10
blockstack10
dns10
blockchain10
layer210
stacks-blockchain10
serverless10
plutus10
foundation9
decentralization9
sips9
cryptocurrency9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
will-corcoran/will-corcoran
Nov 2021 - Jul 2022
Contributions:4 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
stacksgov/critical-bounties
Jun 2024 - Feb 2025
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch, 26 comments in 7 months
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