Chris Mata

Well, I started my journey in web3 by working on infrastructure for a private blockchain, where I utilized some DevOps tools as well as gained an understanding of the infrastructure of public blockchain systems such as Ethereum. This was because I worked with Hyperledger Besu for building it. After that, in my quest to learn more, I got accepted as a fellow for ETH Denver, where my team and I participated and secured 2nd place in the hackathon, hacking for Fuel Network. Since then, my journey as a backend developer began, participating in many hackathons, implementing oracles, doing some smart contract development, and creating swapping bots. Then, I started freelancing, doing some proof of concepts for companies like API3. After that, I landed an internship in cryptography, where I learned classical cryptography and started to implement algorithms and optimization in order to develop zk-provers.