{"profile":{"name":"Eli Benbaruk","firstName":"Eli","lastName":"Benbaruk","role":"Forward Deployed & AI Engineer","headline":"Engineering student @ESILV. I make companies AI-native and build autonomous multi-agent systems and on-chain protocols — software that acts, not just answers.","location":"Paris, France","timezone":"GMT+1","email":"elibenbaruk@gmail.com","status":"Open to work — internship / apprenticeship (Paris)","languages":["French — native","English — C1","Italian — B2"],"oneLiner":"I've been building production software since I was 14. I've designed and deployed multi-agent systems, AI infrastructure and on-chain protocols. 4× hackathon winner.","links":{"github":"https://github.com/ebenbaruk","linkedin":"https://linkedin.com/in/eli-benbaruk-706884330","email":"mailto:elibenbaruk@gmail.com"}},"projects":[{"slug":"heureka","name":"Heureka","year":"2026","stack":["Python","Pydantic","multi-agent"],"tagline":"An AI co-scientist: 7 agents that generate, refute and rank hypotheses.","problem":"Research is bottlenecked by how many hypotheses a team can generate and seriously test. How do you surface testable ideas you wouldn't have had?","approach":"7 specialised agents in an adversarial loop: generation (expert debate) → critique → falsification (red-team) → safety → Elo tournament ranking → evolution. Claim-level verification: each hypothesis is broken into atomic claims checked against open-access literature (OpenAlex, Europe PMC, arXiv); conjunctive scoring — a single contradicted premise collapses the score.","impact":"Ranked hypotheses with claim graphs, calibrated novelty scores, falsification verdicts and proposed experiments. Budget-driven orchestrator, per-role model routing, reproducible runs with provenance. Unit + integration tests, CI.","role":"Sole author — architecture, agents, evals."},{"slug":"fendforitself","name":"FendForItself","award":"🏆 Agentic Economy on Arc 2026","year":"2026","stack":["Next.js","Gemini","x402","Arc"],"tagline":"Autonomous AI-run companies spun up in ~30 seconds.","problem":"Launching a micro-business takes dozens of manual steps. What if agents could own and operate a business end-to-end?","approach":"Each generated company gets its own wallet, USDC funding and a priced API (x402-protected). Agents spawn, pay and coordinate on Arc.","impact":"Winner, Agentic Economy on Arc 2026 (Circle + Arc + Lablab.ai). Demo: 60 buyer agents settling on-chain over real-time SSE. $0.005/call at ~98% margin — viable because USDC is Arc's native gas.","role":"Solo build — agents, on-chain integration, frontend."},{"slug":"pact","name":"PACT","year":"2026","stack":["FastAPI","React","Ed25519"],"tagline":"Identity & reputation for autonomous agents.","problem":"Agents that transact need to prove who they are and decide who to trust, with no human in the loop.","approach":"Three phases: cryptographic handshake (capabilities + Ed25519-signed bonds), discovery (need/capability matching), and a Web of Trust (referrals via bonded peers).","impact":"20+ REST endpoints, network visualization dashboard, two demos (one fully LLM-driven, one scripted). Infra brick for trustworthy agent economies.","role":"Protocol design + backend + interface."},{"slug":"onchain-lie-detector","name":"onchain-lie-detector","year":"2026","stack":["Python","graphs"],"tagline":"Automated crypto due diligence via fund-flow graphs.","problem":"Evaluating an on-chain protocol is slow, manual and easy to fake (inflated TVL, Sybils).","approach":"Ingests 4 heterogeneous sources (Alchemy RPC, Dune, Etherscan, DefiLlama), builds a fund-flow graph, runs Louvain clustering + Johnson's cycle detection to spot circular flows and Sybil networks.","impact":"0–98 trust score across 5 weighted dimensions. 108+ tests. Replaces hundreds of hours of manual investigation per protocol.","role":"Design + implementation."},{"slug":"zkrust","name":"zkrust","year":"2026","stack":["Rust"],"tagline":"A Groth16 zk-SNARK built from scratch, zero crypto deps.","problem":"Truly understand zero-knowledge proofs — not just call a library.","approach":"Full Groth16 over BN254: hand-rolled Montgomery field arithmetic (Fp/Fp2/Fp6/Fp12), optimal Ate pairing, Pippenger MSM, KZG commitments, radix-2 NTT. CLI setup → prove → verify.","impact":"~6,500 lines of Rust, 159 tests, 6-crate workspace. ~1 ms to generate a proof, ~13.5 ms to verify (Apple Silicon).","role":"Sole author — maths, implementation, tests."},{"slug":"liquidvest","name":"LiquidVest","year":"2026","stack":["Anchor","Solana","Next.js"],"tagline":"Tradeable token vesting on Solana.","problem":"Vesting tokens are locked and illiquid until the cliff ends.","approach":"Each vesting schedule is a transferable Receipt NFT — selling the NFT sells the future token stream. Linear / cliff / step curves.","impact":"Anchor 0.30.1 program, Node.js + better-sqlite3 indexer, Next.js frontend. Property-based tests (Proptest) + 13 integration tests (Bankrun).","role":"On-chain program + indexer + frontend."},{"slug":"hypervest","name":"HyperVest","award":"🏆 Hack'inDauphine 2026 — Tokenization track","year":"2026","stack":["Solidity","HyperEVM"],"tagline":"On-chain equity vesting with Soulbound Tokens.","problem":"Equity vesting stays opaque, off-chain and hard to verify.","approach":"Vesting anchored on non-transferable Soulbound Tokens, with performance-based unlocks (MRR targets, GitHub commits, KPIs) instead of pure time.","impact":"Winner, Tokenization track at Hack'inDauphine 2026 (Kryptosphere). Solidity + OpenZeppelin v5, Foundry, deployed on HyperEVM Testnet.","role":"Smart contracts + frontend (with Ariles Hireche)."},{"slug":"truth-stamped","name":"truth-stamped","year":"2025","stack":["TypeScript","Solidity","Base"],"tagline":"Cryptographic anti-deepfake timestamping.","problem":"Prove a piece of media existed at time T, in the age of AI deepfakes.","approach":"On-chain timestamping: SHA-256 + ECDSA signatures + immutable record on Base.","impact":"Live on Base Sepolia, 12 tests, ~$0.001 per stamp. Defensive content-authentication infrastructure.","role":"Design + implementation."}],"experience":[{"org":"TVA Engineering","title":"Forward Deployed Engineer — Intern","context":"Antony (92)","period":"Jun — Jul 2026","summary":"Embedded in an industrial engineering firm (~110 people) to make it AI-native. I designed and deployed the whole central AI infrastructure end-to-end: cloud access (Claude API, reusable internal prompts & tools) AND a self-hosted local cluster — networked Mac Minis serving open-source models (Qwen, Gemma) routed per task. I re-architected access to a non-AI-ready ERP (BoondManager) via custom MCP servers, built an in-house ERP, and shipped commercial tooling + a 360° leadership dashboard. Result: dozens of hours/week saved and ~10 large clients won. Security, guardrails and tests throughout."},{"org":"Euretudes","title":"AI Engineer — Intern","context":"Paris","period":"Jun — Sep 2025","summary":"Helped the company adopt AI and become agentic. Small custom agents per team (recruiting side: sourcing, CV screening, profile formatting, follow-ups, scheduling) and drove day-to-day adoption. Went from near-zero AI to agents used daily by 30+ recruiters; ~50 employees touched by the tooling. Training and explaining for non-technical colleagues."},{"org":"Freelance","title":"Software Developer","context":"Remote","period":"2019 — now","summary":"35+ projects shipped end-to-end for SMBs (e-commerce, consulting, services), started at 14. React/TypeScript frontends, custom backends, full lifecycle: scoping → build → launch → support. Google Ads campaigns at ~2× ROAS on average. What it taught me: a product's real value lives in the messy parts of a business."}],"education":[{"org":"ESILV — École Sup. d'Ingénieurs Léonard de Vinci","title":"Engineering degree — Computer Science","context":"Paris","period":"2024 — 2028","summary":"Computer science engineering degree. Fintech major (blockchain, crypto, finance, economics, software development, machine learning) and Startup track. Clubs: Kryptosphere (blockchain), Entrepreneurs Club."},{"org":"Prépa Emc2 Hadamard","title":"Preparatory classes (CPGE) — MPSI/MP, CS option","context":"Paris","period":"2023 — 2024","summary":"Selective post-bac track preparing for the competitive entrance exams to France's top engineering schools. Maths, physics, engineering science, computer science. Ranked top 20 in France for MP."}],"community":[{"org":"DeVinci Blockchain (ex-Kryptosphere DeVinci)","title":"Member","context":"Paris","period":"2024 — now","summary":"Member of the school's blockchain association. I help organize The Great Hack, on track to be Europe's largest student blockchain hackathon (partners: Sui, XRPL, RedStone, iExec, Hyperliquid, MegaETH, Arc, Circle, Hedera, Arbitrum)."},{"org":"Entrepreneurs Club — ESILV","title":"Member","context":"Paris","period":"2024 — now","summary":"Member of the school's entrepreneurship club: projects, events and mutual help around startup creation."}],"skills":{"bars":[{"name":"Python","level":92},{"name":"TypeScript / JS","level":90},{"name":"AI / LLM agents","level":90},{"name":"Blockchain / on-chain","level":85},{"name":"Rust","level":82},{"name":"Solidity","level":78}],"tags":["Next.js","React","FastAPI","Anchor","Foundry","viem / wagmi","Claude Code","Anthropic API","Gemini API","LangChain","MCP","Solana","EVM","zk-SNARKs","x402","Ed25519"],"extra":"Postgres · SQLite · Linux · SQL · Pytest · Proptest / Bankrun · self-hosted LLMs (Qwen, Gemma)","stats":[{"label":"Projects shipped","value":"35+"},{"label":"Hackathons won","value":"4"},{"label":"Public repos","value":"24"}]}}