Petar Ivanov
Cross-Team Tech Lead And Research at Zama
Sofia Metropolitan Area Bulgaria
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Top SchoolPetar Ivanov is a cross-team tech lead and research engineer with 8+ years building secure, reliable distributed systems across startups and large tech companies. He blends hands-on C++ systems work—particularly Byzantine fault-tolerant state machine replication and Merkle-tree-backed storage—with leadership roles that span architecture, team coaching, and product-focused delivery. At VMware he contributed to the well-known concord-bft project, and at Zama he has driven applied research in cryptography and fully homomorphic encryption while scaling engineering practices. He is passionate about security, privacy and safety as first-class system features and enjoys bridging rigorous math and research with pragmatic engineering. A former telecom systems architect and C++ team lead, he brings deep protocol and low-level performance expertise plus a curious aerospace-minded appreciation for ultra-reliable engineering.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Telecommunications, BSc Telecommunications at Technical University of SofiaMSc Computer Science, MSc Computer Science at Sofia University St. Kliment OhridskiMathematics High School "Geo Milev", Pleven
Github Skills (10)
data-structures10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
data-structure10
cryptography9
algorithms8
blockchain8
software-design7
performance-optimization7
memory-management7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
vmware/concord-bft
Nov 2019 - Feb 2022
Concord byzantine fault tolerant state machine replication library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:705 reviews, 266 commits, 311 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Petar contributed to the core logic and functionality of the Byzantine fault-tolerant state machine replication library, implementing new methods for the Sliver and RSASigner/RSAVerifier classes, and improving the overall architecture. The user refactored code to be more concise and readable, introduced several optimizations, and prepared for migration to a Merkle Tree storage implementation. The user also implemented a container-like read-only blockchain view.
fault-tolerantreplicationstate-machine
zama-ai/fhevm-go
Feb 2024 - Nov 2024
fhevm-go is an open-source library used to easily integrate the fhEVM into an EVM-compatible blockchain.
Contributions:16 reviews, 28 PRs, 89 pushes in 9 months
blockchainevmgocryptographyencryption
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