Wyatt Benno
Tokyo, Japan
Summary
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SeniorWyatt Benno is a technical cofounder and engineer with 11 years of experience building VC- and PE-backed products that bridge cryptography, AI, and real-world operations. He founded and exited Japan’s first skeuomorphic digital office, ran product and engineering roles across acquisitions, and today leads ICME Labs and NovaNet to make zero-knowledge proofs practical for verifiable AI in regulated domains like banking and healthcare. Bilingual in English and Japanese after a Rotary year in Yamagata, he combines deep hands-on ZKP development with product instincts honed by operating startups from Costa Rica to Tokyo. His work on Kinic implements a user-controlled, privacy-preserving AI memory that leverages NovaNet’s ZKP stack to tackle AI “goldfish” memory and data silos. Known for starting to code in his teens and discovering Bitcoin early, he brings rare technical depth plus operator experience across markets and cultures. Connects with builders in AI safety, ZK cryptography, and verifiable systems.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (130)
sat-solver10
recursive10
laravel9
katakana9
homotopy-type-theory9
cryptography9
zkp9
kanji9
crypto8
zk8
activecampaign8
ecdsa-signature8
ghost-blog7
rack7
multithreading7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
kinicdao/kindb
May 2023 - Aug 2024
The database, backend, and scripts used to run Kinic search engine.
Contributions:11 PRs, 24 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 3 months
backenddatabasesearch-engine
kinicdao/kinic
May 2022 - Jun 2022
Search re-imagined for web3.
Contributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 76 pushes in 1 month
ethereumweb3
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