Alumn{i,ae} | Blockchain at Lehigh University

Benjamin Aulenbach
- BS in CS ’23
- initial employment: Software Engineer, MacGuyver Tech
Junchen Bao
- BS in CS’24
Harry Boon,
- BS in CSB’23
- initial employment: Pursuing MS degree at Cornell Tech
Jack Byers
- BS in CSB ‘21, MS in CS ’22
- Master’s thesis: Combatting Front-running in the Blockchain Ecosystem. pdf
- initial employment: Software Engineer, Integrations Platform, Klaviyo
Nate Cable
- BS in CS’24, MS in CS’25
- Master’s thesis: Standardizing Blockchain Layer 2 Benchmarking, pdf
- initial employment: Member of Technical Staff, Blockchain Platform, Oracle
Corey Caplan
- BS in CSB ‘18
- initial employment: Co-Founder and President, Dolomite
Nick Carnevale,
- BS in CSB’25
- initial employment: software engineer, Inca Digital
Victor Carolino, BS in CSB’25
- initial employment: Member of Technical Staff, Blockchain Platform, Oracle
David Cueva,
- BS in CSB’25
- initial employment: software engineer L3, Google
Tal Derei,
- BS in CS ’22, MS in CS ’23
- Master’s thesis: Accelerating the PlonK zkSNARK Proving System using GPU Architectures. pdf
- initial employment: Penumbra
Joss Duff,
- BS in CSB ’23
- MS in CS’26
- initial employment (post undergrad): Smart Contract Developer, Rubicon DeFi
Kaushik Duvur,
- BS in CSB’25
Bora Fanuscu
- BS in CSB ’22
- initial employment: Project Management Engineer, REPKON
Emma Flaherty
- BS in Business and Economics (Finance and Marketing)’22
- initial employment:
Caleb Geren,
- BS in CS’25
- initial post-graduate role: Ph.D. student, University of Utah
Michael Goldfarb,
- BS in CSB’25
- initial employment: Software Engineer, Govini
Paul Grocholske
- BS in CSB&Finance ’19, MS in CS’20
- current employment: Software Engineer, Coinbase
James (Jimmy) Johnson
- BS in CSB ‘21
- initial employment: Software Engineer, ChainSafe Systems
Luke Hale
- BS in CSB ‘24, MS in CS’24
- initial employment: Software Engineer, Ab Initio
Yiannis Karamitros
- BS in CS’24
- initial employment: Software Engineer, CSAA Insurance Group
Michael Kaufman,
- BS in CS’25
- initial employment: Member of Technical Staff, Blockchain Platform, Oracle
Zeeshan Khan
- BS in CS’24
- initial employment: Smart Contract Developer, Mataiye Media
- current employment: API Developer, Authentic8
Adam Knuckey
- BS in CSB ‘18
- initial employment: Co-Founder and COO, Dolomite
Ethan Leifer
- BS in CSB’24
- initial employment: Software Engineer, Novy.ai
Xinhao (Leo) Liu
- BS in CSB ’22
- initial employment: Pursuing MSCS degree at Columbia University, and Researcher at Dodo
Kai Masters
- BS in CSB’21
- initial employment: Frontend Engineer, Dolomite
Alec Mitrokostas
- BS in CSB ’22
- initial employment: Engineer, Fireblocks
dePaul Miller,
- BS in CS ’20, BA in Math ’20, Ph.D. ’25
- dePaul Miller, BS in CS ’20, BA in Math ’20, Ph.D. ’25
- initial employment: Nvidia
Nicholas Paddock
- BS in Astrophysics’24; MS, Financial Engineering’26
- initial employment: associate engineer, BTCS
William (Will) Peracchio
- BS in CSB ‘20, MS in CS ’21
- Master’s thesis: Design Considerations for Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs). pdf
- Schwarzman Scholar, Tsinghua University
- initial employment: Associate Technical Product Manager, Knox Networks
Jacob Piskadlo, Bucknell University, BS in CS’25
- initial employment: Inca Digital
Adrian Ross
- BS in CSB’24
- initial employment: Software Engineer, Oracle Blockchain Platform
Buckley Ross
- BS in CS ’22
- current employment: Booz Allen Hamilton
Aaron Rotem
- BS in CSB ‘19
- initial employment: Senior Consultant, Digital & Emerging Technologies, Ernst & Young (EY)
Trent Sawicki
- BS in CSB ‘20
- initial employment: Cybersecurity, Privacy and Forensics Associate, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)
Sammy Schutz,
- BS in CSB’23
- initial employment: Software Engineer, JPMorganChase
Dariia Tyshchenko
- BS in CS’25
- initial employment: Optano
Jefferson Van Buskirk,
- BS in CSB ‘22, MS in CS ’23
- Master’s thesis: The Standardization of Blockchain Benchmarking. pdf
- initial employment: Data Engineer, FAST Enterprises
Maxim Venezov
- BS in CSB ‘21, MS in CS ’22
- Master’s thesis: Accelerating zkSNARKs on Modern Architectures. pdf
- initial employment: Software Engineer, Aztec
Emir Veziroglu, BS in CS’25
- initial employment: FedEx
Abby Vogel
- BS in CSB ‘24, MS in CS’25
- Master’s thesis: Enabling Cross-Network Consensus: A Hierarchical Framework for Independent Blockchain Systems pdf .
- initial employment: Embedded Software Engineer, Thales Defense & Security
Vasillios (Ollie) Walsh
- BS in CSB ‘21, MS in CS ’22
- initial employment: Machine Learning Engineer, Coinbase
- current employment: Machine Learning Engineer, OpenGradient
Blake Wilkey
- BS in CS ’22
- initial employment: IBM
Jouny Zedan,
- BS in CS’23
- initial employment: Software Engineer, Amazon