Team

Meet the people behind Ritual

Core

Niraj Pant

Niraj Pant

Co-founder

GP @ Polychain, Research @ Decentralized Systems Lab, CS @ UIUC

Akilesh Potti

Akilesh Potti

Co-founder

Partner @ Polychain, ML @ Palantir, HFT, Quant Trading @ Goldman, ML Research @ {MIT, Cornell}

Anish Agnihotri

Anish Agnihotri

MEV, Research @ Paradigm, Trading @ Polychain, CS @ UWaterloo

Eva Zhang

Eva Zhang

Founder @ Socket, Apple, Google, ML Research @ Stanford, Math & CS @ Stanford

Saneel Sreeni

Saneel Sreeni

Founding Team @ Alkimiya, Venture Partner @ Accomplice, Junior Partner @ Dragonfly, M.E.T. @ UC Berkeley

Maryam Bahrani

Maryam Bahrani

Research @ a16z crypto, CS PhD @ Columbia (Tim Roughgarden), Quant Trader @ Jane Street, CS @ Princeton

Arka Pal

Arka Pal

Deepmind, Abacus, Kosen, University of Cambridge

Naveen Durvasula

Naveen Durvasula

PhD student @ Columbia (Tim Roughgarden), Algorithmic Game Theory, EECS @ UC Berkeley

0xEmperor

0xEmperor

Multi-disciplinary researcher - NLP and ML. Crypto research.

Yahya Hassanzadeh

Yahya Hassanzadeh

Cryptography @ Dapper Labs @ Flow Blockchain, Ph.D. CS @ KU Distributed Systems

Igor Sylvester

Igor Sylvester

Engineering Partner @ Trust Machines, Staff SWE ML @ Reddit & Meta, Citadel, EECS @ MIT

Praveen Palanisamy

Praveen Palanisamy

Principal AI Eng @ Microsft AI & Research, CS @ CMU

0xQTpie

0xQTpie

mev, full stack engineering

Achal Srinivasan

Achal Srinivasan

Collaborator to Paradigm, dYdX, and more. Previously Coinbase, CS @ Rice.

Wally Chang

Wally Chang

DeFi @ Polychain, Algo Trading @ Goldman Sachs

Misha Rybalov

Misha Rybalov

Staff SDET @ Dapper Labs @ Flow Blockchain, @ Norton, Sys Des Eng @ UWaterloo

Stelios Rousoglou

Stelios Rousoglou

Founding Eng @ Alta, SWE @ C3, Masters in CS [AI] @ Stanford, CS @ Yale

Celia Wan

Celia Wan

Partner @ Dragonfly, Huobi Ventures, The Block, UChicago

Stef Henao

Stef Henao

Head of People @ Protocol Labs, HRBP @ Coinbase, People Ops @ Hired, IB Analyst @ Credit Suisse

Arshan Khanifar

Arshan Khanifar

Research, Trading @ Polychain, RF @ Apple, EE @ UWaterloo

Peiyuan Liao

Peiyuan Liao

CTO + Co-Founder @ rabbit, ZKML @ zk-ml.xyz, ML systems research & GNNs @ CMU, GM @ Kaggle

Hadas Zeilberger

Hadas Zeilberger

PhD Student @ Yale (Ben Fisch), Cryptography, Researcher @ Consensys, Math @ Columbia

Joshua Simenhoff

Joshua Simenhoff

Community @ Chainlink Labs, PC Gamer Magazine, Tom's Hardware, MakerBot

Micah Goldblum

Micah Goldblum

Postdoc @ NYU (Yann Lecunn), AI; PhD @ University of Maryland (Tom Goldstein), Mathematics

Ricky Moezinia

Ricky Moezinia

Founder @ Alta, Software Engineer @ Libra, Quant @ Point72, EECS @ MIT

Mayank Pandey

Mayank Pandey

PhD student @ Princeton (Peter Sarnak), Analytic Number Theory, Math @ Caltech, Citadel

William Wang

William Wang

Ph.D. Student @ NYU (Benedikt Bünz, Joe Bonneau), Cryptography

Evangelos Barakos

Evangelos Barakos

Integrations @ Chainlink, @ Slingshot Finance, Lead Eng @ FilmChain, Eng @ Slock.it

Darryl Yeo

Darryl Yeo

Founder @ blockhead.info, Software Engineer @ dYdX, CS @ Cal Poly SLO

Mario Bruh

Mario Bruh

web3 artist & pepe degenery

Interns

Advisors