Team

Poramin Insom

Co-Founder

Poramin Insom founded Zcoin (now Firo) in 2016, seeking to provide financial privacy and also more inclusive mining via ASIC resistant proof of work. He earned a masters degree in Information Security from Johns Hopkins University where he wrote a paper on a proposed practical implementation of the Zerocoin protocol. He laid the foundations of Zcoin's (now Firo) technology from coding the world's first implementation of Zerocoin and also pushing for the research and development into the MTP mining algorithm. Poramin has been focused on pushing for the adoption of Firo into the real world especially in his involvement in facilitating the Thai Democrat Party to conduct its primary elections to elect its party leader on Firo's blockchain in 2018 which is the world's first large scale political election on a blockchain. He also served in tha Thai military where he was in charge of cyberwarfare.

Reuben Yap

Co-Founder

Reuben Yap has led the project in its overall strategy, development goals and research efforts for the past few years. He now remains part of the core team managing the core team's development and research teams. Joining the team shortly after its inception, he has played a pivotal role in shaping Firo to where it is today. Reuben has been a vocal advocate of online and financial privacy having founded one of SE Asia's earliest VPN services to combat his country's censorship and is a well respected speaker on the topic, with featured interviews and commentary in BBC, Nasdaq Tradetalks, Forbes, Coindesk, Reuters and Cheddar News, among others. Prior to joining Firo, Reuben was a partner at a law firm with over ten years of practicing experience having specialized in doing advisory work in legal and institutional frameworks.

Aram Jivanyan

Chief Privacy Architect

Aram has been a key figure in developing Firo's core technology, having created both the Lelantus and Lelantus Spark protocols. These scientific innovations have significantly influenced the privacy protocol landscape within the cryptocurrency space, inspiring the creation of other privacy-focused protocols such as Triptych (Monero), Seraphis (Monero), and Lelantus-MW (Beam). He has also designed privacy preserving voting systems with minimal trust requirements such as Aura.

Peter Shugalev

Lead Developer

Peter is a highly skilled programmer and software architect with 20+ years of experience. He lives in Moscow, Russia, and graduated from Moscow State University magna cum laude with a Master's Degree in Computer Science and Mathematics. He has created network and security-related services, and has even created his own programming language and a cross-platform compiler for a signature-based intrusion detection system. His rare combination of cryptographic knowledge and programming has helped Firo stay at the forefront of on-chain privacy.

Levon Petrosyan

Developer

Levon is a software engineer with Master's degrees in both Computing Sciences and Economics from the American University of Armenia. His background is in C++ programming and cryptography. He is one of Firo's most prolific contributors having coded huge portions of Firo's Lelantus cryptographic library along with optimizations to support large anonymity sets.

Artur

Developer

Artur is a budding software engineer and Yerevan State Medical University student, brings a unique blend of medical knowledge and tech skills. Graduating from Picsart Academy, he excels in C/C++ and has hands-on experience in software development.His passion lies in merging medicine and technology to create impactful solutions.

Narek Geghamyan

Developer

Narek is a software engineer who graduated from a Faculty of computer science in National University of Architecture and Construction of Armenia. His tech stack includes C++ and Linux. He has a passion a swimming and coding.

Cypher Stack

Design Firm

Cypher Stack is a blockchain developer, design, research, and consultation company. They are currently developing Firo with their mobile wallet and lite desktop wallet, Campfire.

Anwar P.

Senior Support

Anwar majored in electrical and electronics engineering, with several years of experience of technical support at an IT company. He handles support queries, documentation, developer support and also assists the Project Steward with day to day matters.

Ajaydono

Support

Ajay assists the Project Steward in day-to-day operations as well as support enquiries. He has a Diploma in Information Technology majoring in Database Administration and has several years of experience of IT technical support.

Lil-King

Community Manager

Lil-King is a dedicated privacy advocate in the crypto space with over five years of experience. Specializing in marketing and onboarding, Lil-King has played a crucial role in promoting privacy-focused projects. Passionate about financial privacy, Lil-King is committee to educating and empowering users to take control of their digital assets securely.

Batuhan

Turkish Community Manager

Batuhan manages the Turkish community, translating annoucements and notices

Antibit

Russian-speaking Community Manager

Antibit manages the Russian-speaking community, translating annoucements and notices. He has been a crypto enthusiast since 2012, and during this time has accumulated a lot of knowledge and experience regarding cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies.