Zcash Foundation

The Zcash Foundation Welcomes A New Engineering Project Manager

The Zcash Foundation is very excited to welcome Pili Guerra as our Engineering Project Manager. Pili has 15 years of experience working in the tech industry as a software developer, solutions engineer, consultant and project manager. She has previously worked at the Tor Project as a Project Manager for the Tor Browser, Community and UX […]

Farewell to George

It is on a bittersweet note that we announce that George Tankersley is leaving the Foundation. George has been a part of the Zcash community for nearly three years. Prior to working at the Foundation, George assisted in the final stages of Sapling development and designed the shielded light wallet protocol as a cryptographic engineer at the […]

The Zcash Foundation Welcomes A New Operations Manager

We are delighted to announce Danika Delano has joined our team as the Foundation’s operations manager. Danika is eager to bring her commitment to operational excellence, love of Excel spreadsheets, and non-profit experience to the role. Working closely with Antonie Hodge, she will help keep the Foundation running smoothly. Danika has worked in the field […]

The Zcash Foundation Welcomes Jane and Teor

I’m thrilled to announce that the Zcash Foundation just hired two talented Rust Systems Engineers to help us meet the goals of our ambitious 2020 tech roadmap. Meet Jane Lusby Jane has worked as a C++ systems software engineer for embedded and distributed systems. Her professional experience is primarily in networking and storage technologies. Her past projects […]

The Zcash Foundation Welcomes an Operations Associate

Lena Wang is the Zcash Foundation’s new operations associate! She will work with operations director Antonie Hodge to keep the Foundation running smoothly. Lena attended Valencia College for two years before opting out to join a business apprenticeship bootcamp called Discover Praxis. She is a jill of all trades and has led an adventurous life […]

The Zcash Foundation Welcomes a Core Engineer and Researcher

Chelsea Komlo has joined the Zcash Foundation as a core engineer and researcher. Chelsea has worked as a software engineer on cryptography protocols and large-scale distributed systems, including at ThoughtWorks and HashiCorp. She is currently a graduate student at the University of Waterloo, where she focuses on privacy-enhancing technologies and cryptography research. Her interests lie at […]

The Zcash Foundation Welcomes a Director of Engineering

George Tankersley has joined the Zcash Foundation as our director of engineering! George is a software engineer and cryptographer with years of experience working on large-scale internet security infrastructure. He is passionate about getting high-end privacy tech into ordinary people’s hands, a goal that dovetails perfectly with the Foundation’s mission. Most recently, George worked as a cryptographic […]