Yoni Mekuria
Co-Founder at The Founder Institute
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYoni Mekuria is a product-focused full-stack software engineer and Co-Founder based in San Francisco with 10 years of experience building web, mobile, desktop, and blockchain applications. Trained in electrical engineering and finance, he combines technical depth (JavaScript, TypeScript, React/React Native, Node.js, GraphQL, MongoDB/Postgres, Solidity) with business and growth instincts from roles in investment banking, marketing, and business development. He’s contributed backend code and test automation to notable open-source cryptography tooling (o1-labs/o1js), reflecting an interest in zk-SNARKs and developer-grade blockchain primitives. Yoni also co-founded a long-running Silicon Valley sports league and has a track record of sourcing strategic partnerships that delivered meaningful product and service value to startups. He enjoys working with motivated teams to apply new technologies to solve real-world problems that positively impact people.
10 years of coding experience
B.S. Electrical Engineering, B.S. Electrical Engineering at University of Colorado at Boulder- College of EngineeringB.S. Finance, B.S. Finance at University of Colorado Boulder - Leeds School of Business
Github Skills (9)
zk10
testing10
unit-testing10
zksnark10
typescript10
typescripts10
typescript-types10
circuit9
web-framework9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
o1-labs/o1js
May 2022 - Dec 2022
TypeScript framework for zk-SNARKs and zkApps
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:149 reviews, 174 commits, 37 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Yoni primarily contributed to the development and testing of the `o1js` framework. Their commits focused on adding new methods and tests for the `Bool` primitive, including `toField`, `and`, `not`, `or`, `assertEquals`, `equals`, and `toFields`. These changes involve writing in-circuit and out-of-circuit tests to ensure the functionality and correctness of the `Bool` methods within the framework's zk-SNARKs environment.
snarksjavascript-frameworkjavascriptzk-snarksjavascript-typescript
ymekuria/shortly-deploy
Dec 2015 - Feb 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
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