Sam coding at a high-rise window overlooking Montreal at sunset

My name is Samuel Laferriere, and I’m a Staff Software Engineer at Seismic, where I work on the execution layer of an EVM-compatible privacy L1 — a reth fork running BFT consensus inside TDX enclaves. Before that I spent three years at EigenLabs, where I led the integrations team for EigenDA, a high-throughput BFT blobstore, building and maintaining its rollup integrations (Optimism, zkSync, and others). For the details, have a look at my resume.

I work mostly in Rust and Go on distributed systems: BFT consensus + blobstore, EVM, and confidential compute.

Before blockchain, I did academic research in robotics, developing Koopman-based control algorithms for self-driving cars and quadrotors. I completed my Master’s degree at the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms (MILA), where I developed Bayesian optimization algorithms for neurostimulation, and before that earned my bachelor’s in mathematics and computer science at McGill University.