Jan Gorzny

Jan Gorzny is Co-Founder at Zircuit, a Layer 2 blockchain infrastructure project built on Ethereum focused on zero-knowledge proof systems and transaction security. Zircuit's architecture incorporates an AI model designed to detect and block fraudulent transactions, with the stated goal of attracting institutional users by raising the security standards of Layer 2 infrastructure. Gorzny co-founded the project in June 2022, and it launched on Ethereum in November 2023.

Prior to founding Zircuit, Gorzny worked at Quantstamp, a blockchain security firm, from 2018 to 2023. He joined as a Blockchain Researcher and later became Head of L2 Scaling, focusing on infrastructure and scaling-related research. He is also a co-author of Fundamentals of Smart Contract Security, a technical reference covering blockchain function, smart contract vulnerabilities, and development best practices. His academic research has covered algorithmic graph theory, fixed-parameter tractability, formal methods, and proof compression. He holds a PhD in algorithms and complexity from the University of Waterloo (2022), an MSc in algorithmic graph theory from the University of Victoria (2013–2015), an MSc in model-driven software engineering from the University of Toronto (2011–2013), and a Bachelor of Mathematics in computer science, combinatorics, and optimization from the University of Waterloo (2007–2011).