Cryptographer at heart · privacy engineer · founder of Umbra
I build privacy infrastructure, and I'm genuinely in love with cryptography.
Give me a zero-knowledge circuit that won't satisfy, a no_std on-chain program with no room to
spare, or a Lean proof that refuses to close — and I'm exactly where I want to be. What pulls me in
is the craft of it: constructions that are provably correct, implementations that are byte-exact,
and the quiet thrill of turning hard mathematics into something real people can rely on.
Umbra — a multi-chain privacy protocol, and the hardest, most
rewarding engineering I've ever taken on. It runs the full stack of applied cryptography:
zero-knowledge circuits (Groth16 · Circom), no_std Solana programs, pairing-based BLS aggregation
over BN254, Poseidon commitments, protocol-safety proofs formalized in Lean 4, and hand-written
native crypto for mobile.
Zero-knowledge proofs · pairing-based cryptography · hash-based commitments · secure computation · formal verification. I'm not there yet — but I get a little sharper every single day, and that climb is the entire point.
- 🏆 EthIndia '24 winner — best on-chain dApp at Polygon zkEVM
- 🌞 Google Summer of Code '24 with Haiku
- 🌊 Open source with Braidpool
- 🎓 Information Technology at NITK Surathkal
- 🎹 A mechanical-keyboard habit, and 🔢 a lasting soft spot for pure maths
umbraprivacy.com · LinkedIn · cal@umbraprivacy.com · calistomathias.work@gmail.com



