Srinath Setty

Data Scientist

https://www.opentalent.in/srinath-setty

Principal Researcher

Microsoft Research

Key Strengths

Extensive personal project experience in advanced cryptography (zkSNARKs, VDFs, folding schemes) and high-performance computing (CUDA, C++, Assembly, Rust).
Demonstrated proficiency in Rust for complex systems development.
Experience with performance optimization in cryptographic primitives (e.g., pasta-msm, semolina).
Current role as a Data Scientist at Microsoft Research, indicating strong research and analytical capabilities.

Cultural & Operational Fit

Cultural Fit Analysis

The candidate's projects are heavily focused on cryptography and low-level performance optimization, primarily in Rust. While the current role is 'Data Scientist', the project portfolio suggests a strong inclination towards cryptographic engineering or research rather than traditional data science. This might indicate a potential mismatch with a standard Data Scientist role requiring broader machine learning, statistical modeling, or data engineering skills. The diversity of projects is high within the specialized domain of cryptography.

Soft Skills & Operational Fit

Insufficient data to assess soft skills and operational fit. No psychometric test results or interview feedback provided.

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Projects

srinathsetty.github.io

October 23, 2025 – October 23, 2025

srinathsetty.github.io — GitHub repository

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Reef

December 7, 2023 – November 21, 2025

Reef: A zkSNARK system for proving that a committed document matches a regex

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Spartan2

July 19, 2023 – Present

Spartan: High-speed zkSNARKs without trusted setup

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NovaBreakingTheCycleAttack

April 30, 2023 – May 7, 2023

NovaBreakingTheCycleAttack — GitHub repository

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pasta-msm

March 17, 2022 – September 6, 2025

High-performance Multi-scalar Multiplication for Pasta curves

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semolina

January 31, 2022 – December 3, 2023

Finite Field operations for Pasta curves

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Nova

July 22, 2021 – Present

Nova: High-speed recursive zero-knowledge arguments from folding schemes

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vdf

February 17, 2021 – September 1, 2022

A Sloth-based Verifiable Delay Function (VDF) evaluator and SNARK prover.

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academicpages.github.io

July 21, 2020 – July 17, 2020

Github Pages template for academic personal websites, forked from mmistakes/minimal-mistakes

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xpir-rust

September 1, 2017 – July 30, 2018

xpir-rust — GitHub repository

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Key Strengths

Extensive personal project experience in advanced cryptography (zkSNARKs, VDFs, folding schemes) and high-performance computing (CUDA, C++, Assembly, Rust).
Demonstrated proficiency in Rust for complex systems development.
Experience with performance optimization in cryptographic primitives (e.g., pasta-msm, semolina).
Current role as a Data Scientist at Microsoft Research, indicating strong research and analytical capabilities.

Cultural & Operational Fit

Cultural Fit Analysis

Soft Skills & Operational Fit

Insufficient data to assess soft skills and operational fit. No psychometric test results or interview feedback provided.

Srinath Setty

Key Strengths

Cultural & Operational Fit

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Key Strengths

Cultural & Operational Fit