👋 Hello, I’m Illya Gerasymchuk — a software engineer and finance professional focused on full-stack development of consumer and financial software. I work across quantitative modeling/ML, financial market microstructure, cryptographic protocol design and implementation (DeFi, smart contracts, Zero-Knowledge Proofs), agentic AI systems and traditional consumer software. My open-source contributions include the IETF TLS 1.3 (RFC 8446) and DTLS 1.3 specifications, zkLocus protocol, over 100 projects on GitHub, and published work on law, computer security, and financial markets.