# Florian Kluge

> Engineering Leader based in Bangkok. Work mode: Remote.

I lead teams building developer infrastructure and technically demanding systems across zero-knowledge, verifiable computing, and AI. I work hands-on across TypeScript, Rust, WebAssembly, SDKs, AI agents, and cryptographic systems.

## Contact

- Email: [hello@zktrivo.dev](mailto:hello@zktrivo.dev)
- Website: [https://zktrivo.dev](https://zktrivo.dev)
- GitHub: [Trivo25](https://github.com/Trivo25)
- LinkedIn: [Florian Kluge](https://www.linkedin.com/in/florian-kluge-zk)
- Location: Bangkok (Remote)
- Languages: English, German

## Experience

### Engineering Team Lead — o1Labs

**Aug 2024 - present**

Lead engineering for o1js and developer infrastructure. Responsible for technical direction, roadmap, delivery, hiring, cross-functional product work, and hands-on engineering.

- Owned end-to-end delivery of the MESA hardfork: authored protocol changes, coordinated protocol, SDK, and infrastructure teams, and shipped a 4x state-size expansion for DeFi and gaming zkApps.
- Scaled o1js from 4K to 15K monthly npm downloads with about 600 GitHub stars while leading a team of four engineers.
- Shipped o1js v2 as a coordinated migration across protocol, cryptography, and SDK layers, with ecosystem-wide release planning.
- Shipped the native prover path for Node so circuits can prove faster without changing authoring APIs.
- Built the engineering growth pipeline: technical interviews, leveling rubrics, and mentorship toward broader ownership.
- Employee-elected board director at o1Labs, representing engineering and product priorities at the governance level.

### Founder — ctq5.io

**Jul 2023 - Dec 2024**

Independent consultancy advising early-stage teams on zero-knowledge circuit architecture, proving pipeline design, and smart-contract security, including a full engineering audit of constraint systems and soundness properties for a pre-launch protocol.

### Senior Software Engineer — o1Labs

**Aug 2022 - Aug 2024**

Built core parts of o1js across TypeScript, Rust, and WebAssembly. Co-architected the SDK from its early stages through v1.0, including the zkDSL, Mina integration layer, and API patterns that still shape the developer experience.

- Replaced a custom circuit language with a TypeScript-native authoring system, lowering the barrier to ZK development for TypeScript teams.
- Delivered low-level proving-pipeline optimizations that improved time-to-first-proof by up to 20% in internal benchmarks.

### Software Engineer — TÜV | DEKRA arge tp 21

**Nov 2020 - Aug 2022**

Led a frontend modernization from PHP/Laravel to Vue.js and TypeScript, shipping a progressive web app used by field inspectors for vehicle compliance checks.

## Selected work

### [o1js](https://zktrivo.dev/work/o1js)

**Engineering Team Lead, previously Senior Software Engineer · 2022 - present**

The TypeScript SDK Mina developers actually write against. Circuits in a language they already know, proofs underneath.

TypeScript · Rust · WebAssembly · SDKs · Zero Knowledge

### [TRACE](https://zktrivo.dev/work/trace)

**Systems design and implementation · 2026**

Evidence of what an agent did, under which constraints, in a form another party can check.

AI Agents · Zero Knowledge · TypeScript · Verification

### [Code Airlock](https://zktrivo.dev/work/code-airlock)

**Creator and maintainer · 2026**

A coding agent in a disposable microVM. You review ordinary Git commits. The host stays yours.

AI Agents · Developer Infrastructure · Shell · Docker

## Skills

- TypeScript
- Rust
- WebAssembly
- SDKs
- Zero Knowledge
- AI Agents
- Developer Infrastructure

Canonical HTML version: https://zktrivo.dev/resume