Orest Tarasiuk

My name is Orest. I’m an old-school-ish computer scientist currently in crypto and ideating towards co-founding a new startup.

• Running zkWarsaw. zkWarsaw is a Warsaw community around zero-knowledge proofs organising lectures and workshops for researchers, hackers, and builders.

• Worked as engineer at Scroll. Scroll is building a bytecode-level zkEVM (zero-knowledge-proof-based rollup with EVM compatibility) to scale the Ethereum blockchain.

• Co-founded Cara Care. Cara empowers individuals suffering from chronic digestive diseases to live a better life.

• Co-founded Knit. Knit’s app lets you tighten your organisation through video-based networking events.

• Occasionally manages Dessert Ventures. Dessert Ventures provides freelance tech consulting and product development services.

I’m also into good (drip!) coffee, ski touring, horse-riding, motorcycling, and blues and balfolk dance.

Speaking

• Ed Frost: Beginner-friendly context on scaling Ethereum with ZK (interview)
• Devconnect Istanbul 2023: Rebuilding trust in crypto (interview)
• ETHWarsaw 2023: Recent progress in solving Ethereum scaling challenges (panel)
• Flipside: An update on ZKP (panel)
• ETHDenver:
  • Why DevEx should be boring
  • Decentralization & resilience (panel)
• ETHVietnam: Intro to scaling Ethereum with rollups and zero-knowledge proofs
• ETHGathering Barcelona: L2 security (panel)
• ETHWarsaw 2022:
  • Quick intro to scaling Ethereum
  • ZK scaling solutions (panel)
• BanklessDAO: Scroll’s testnet pre-announcement at ETHBarcelona (interview)
• FuruRadio: Layer 2 scaling solutions (panel)
• [Polish] Podróż po web3: Rozwiązania zero knowledge w warstwie 2 Ethereum (interview)
• [Polish] Crypto Wild: Scroll o zkEVM. Czy mamy miejsce na kolejny rollup? (interview)

Web

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/OrestTa
• Farcaster: https://warpcast.com/Orest
• GitHub: https://github.com/OrestTa
• LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/OrestTa
• HackMD: https://hackmd.io/@OrestTa
• Discord: OrestTa

Project Archive

• ETHGlobal: https://ethglobal.com/showcase/fairarbooors-uq81v
• Devfolio: https://devfolio.co/@Orest
• Devpost: https://devpost.com/OrestTa
• Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~orestta
• Gnome: https://extensions.gnome.org/accounts/profile/trsk
• Trsk’s Linuxen (~2011 Linux blog): https://trskslinuxen.tarasiuk.me
• Mur Myśli (~2007 personal blog): https://murmysli.tarasiuk.me

GnuPG

Pubkey, fingerprint: 9D30 2D94 35C5 5FB2 DE4C 33B8 F42D FC4D B196 6F25

AKA

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