I'm Georg, 31, worked as a machine learning engineer until last year and then took a few months off to study cryptography! I read textbooks, learned Rust, and worked on PlonK integration into ZoKrates
To highlight two projects:
https://github.com/georgwiese/zk-vote-hackathon
Here, two friends and I built an anonymous voting application that runs on Ethereum, basically a simplified version of ZeroCoin. We used ZoKrates to generate the proofs and the Solidity verifier.
https://github.com/georgwiese/hash-based-signatures
A toy project to learn Rust in the context of cryptography: implementing hash-based signatures from scratch.