Vishnu Prakash

VISHNU PRAKASH

I'm a Blockchain Engineer with 5 years of experience in crypto-native companies.

Designed, implemented, and deployed multiple on-chain smart contracts for perpetual trading, including bridge contracts, settlement contracts, funding payment, and authentication.

Cypherpunk | Developer | Quizzer
Oct'20 - Dec'20
  • Deployed and maintained a Hyperledger application on AWS
  • Coordinated with the Web Team to containerize a Hyperledger instance on Kubernetes
Oct'21 — Aug'24
  • Designed and shipped high-throughput DeFi infrastructure across Starknet and Substrate appchain
  • Processed $2B+ in trades and secured $10M+ TVL
  • Optimized core trading, bridging, and funding mechanisms
Dec'24 - May'25
  • Built low-latency blockchain data pipelines on Base
  • Developed backend APIs and automated trading systems
  • Optimized infrastructure for high-frequency operations
Independent — ZK Researcher & Developer
Aug'25 - Present
  • Conducted multiple sessions on Ethereum programming at Chennai Mathematical Institute in June
  • Completed the RareSkills ZK Bootcamp, covering circuit design, proving systems, and production ZK tooling
  • Built fTornado, a privacy-preserving token wrapper combining Tornado Cash–style anonymity pools with Zama's FHE-based confidential tokens (ERC-7984), using Circom, Solidity, and Hardhat
  • Authored wad.nr, an 18-decimal fixed-point arithmetic library in Noir for the Aztec Network, with overflow-resistant mul_div operations for safe on-chain math
  • Published technical writing on lending protocol design (Aave, Morpho) and a self-directed Aave v1 audit on Substack
  • Designed and shipped ZstarkWarp, a privacy-preserving cross-chain bridge between Starknet and Ztarknet, combining zero-knowledge proofs with a solver-validation economic security model to mitigate typical bridge-hack vectors