Pratyaksh Gupta is an electrical and electronics engineering student and 2x MIT Covid-19 Challenge Winner and CGI U 2022 Fellow. He is the founder of Tenacity Network, an open, interoperable smart contracts platform optimized for decentralized sustainability-first applications.
A recent focus is FHE(Fully Homomorphic Encryption) based privacy-oriented open-source implementation of smart contracts, including their applications to decentralized health, energy, and identity. He has also shown work on technology for developing regions with projects in India and is leading the development of India's First P2P Disaster Resilience Network, which he started as a hackathon project. You can find him buried deep in a book, participating in hackathons, preparing a technical talk, or early-morning walks.
Projects
VISCA: State Channel Powered Layer-H Protocol
Virtually Integrated State Channels Anonymization Unlocking Medical History With Anonymized Non-Fungibility.IPFS, Ethereum, Polygon, ENS, Lens Protocol, Starlight, Zero-Knowledge ProofsPROJECT A.N.T.H.E.M.
Artificial Network of Transcendent Hyper-Intelligent Entities and Machines (THE NETWORK STATE FOR AGI BEING POWERED BY VISCA[Verifiable Interoperable Secure Cognitive Architecture])AWS, Azure, GCP, k8s, GPT-4, POLYGON MIDEN, ZK-EVM, Polygon IdentitySkills
Experience
- American Express - Information Security AnalystJune 2022 - July 2022
I joined the APAC Business Information Security Office(BISO) team. In this role, I supported the team on various metrics and KRIs, information security reviews, and regulatory requests.