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Aayush Gupta

Aayush Gupta

Engineer and co-founder building ZK email and image provenance

San Francisco Bay Area
Joined July 2026
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Summary

Technical ZK researcher and builder: deeply involved in designing and shipping zero-knowledge proof tooling that bridges Web2 signals (email, SSO) with Web3 verification; leads open-source engineering efforts, SDKs, circuits, and smart-contract integrations for privacy-preserving email proofs. aayushg+2
Serial product-maker and founder: a consistent pattern of creating and scaling consumer and developer-facing products (Auto-LaTeX Equations, Lipoker, Copysmith involvement) and founding/co-founding multiple ventures, demonstrating an ability to move research into production. autolatex+1
Applied machine-learning and interdisciplinary researcher: background includes ML research internships and work spanning self-driving perception, molecular/aging research, and applied ML in biotech settings, indicating a breadth across ML applications and translational research. aayushg+1
Committed to open source, education, and community: maintains an active personal blog, contributes permissively-licensed tooling, and supports open education and public goods through projects and grants, signaling focus on accessible knowledge and community-driven development. aayushg+2

Work

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Writing

Proof systems, ecosystems, proving stacks, and why we chose the ones we did

November 1, 2023

Discussion of proof systems and choosing stacks for building ZK infrastructure and ecosystems (co-authored content on zk.email).

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ZK Email

December 1, 2022

Detailed technical blog post describing how to verify data provenance via zero-knowledge proofs of redacted emails, including DKIM-based constructions, privacy considerations, ZK circuits, and applications.

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Hobbies

Writes movie and travel recommendations and curates novelty-focused recs. aayushg+1

Runs/was involved in a hobby barbershop project (MIT Fades). mitfades

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