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Carlos Sessa is Principal Software Engineer at Expedia Group. Formerly, Android Engineer Manager at Fitbit.

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Carlos Sessa

Dietrich Ayala is IPFS Ecosystem Growth Engineer, Technical PM for IPFS Browser Integrations at Protocol Labs. Interested in the web and browsers, decentralization and distributed networks, IoT ethics and design of physical and room scale computing, connected device manufacturing life cycle, mobile Web as first-class development platform, device power/data consumption and optimization, optimization for slow/rare/unreliable network conditions, mentoring & technical academic partnerships.

Dietrich Ayala

Greg Osuri is Founder & CEO of Overclock Labs and Akash Network, where he develops protocols, tools, and infrastructure to make foundational elements of the internet open, decentralized, and simple. Previously, Greg founded AngelHack and was the CTO for the world's largest hackathon-accelerator with over 80K developers in the ecosystem.

He is the author of several prominent open source toolkits that are well-regarded by the DevOps community and downloaded over 25M times. He has been ranked amongst top 20 programmers worldwide on several occasions for authoring open-source libraries used by widely-adopted projects like Ubuntu and Kubernetes.

Greg Osuri

Bitcoin Core developer, and an advisor to Coinkite. Applied Cryptography Consultant (what the cool kids call 'blockchain tech') PGP: 0x7FAB114267E4FA04.

Peter is an independent applied cryptography consultant - what the cool kids call "blockchain tech" - known for his research and educational work on better understanding and making use of "blockchain" technology, with a particular focus on scalability. He's also a long time contribution to Bitcoin Core, as well as maintainer of the python-bitcoinlib and OpenTimestamps projects. He brings to this field a very diverse background, including a fine arts degree, and a stint doing analog electronics design for a geophysics startup.

Peter Todd

Noah Zinsmeister is lead engineer at Uniswap Exchange; creator of Web3-react; co-author of ERC-1484.

I graduated from Columbia in 2016, where I studied economics and math. After a close call with an econ PhD I became fascinated with cryptocurrencies, and have since gone fully down the rabbit hole. Right now I'm a Senior Engineer at Uniswap, a decentralized exchange built on Ethereum.

I have a B.A. in Economics-Mathematics from Columbia University. After graduating I spent nearly two years at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York working as a Senior Research Analyst in the Money and Payments Studies division. My long-standing interest in cryptocurrencies eventually led me to an engineering role at Hydrogen, where I wrote security grade smart contracts, co-authored ERC-1484 (a digital identity protocol), and developed open-source blockchain tooling. I'm now a Senior Engineer at Uniswap, a decentralized exchange protocol for trading Ethereum-based assets.

Noah Zinsmeister

Zachary Cole is a blockchain protocol engineer and DeFi enthusiast. Currently, he is the Co-Founder and CTO of SlingShot, a DeFi trading platform. Previously, he founded a company called WhiteBlock, which specialized in blockchain protocol testing, research and development.

He also serve as technical advisor to several blockchain related companies, like DeFi Pulse and the Syscoin Foundation.

He has been involved in the blockchain space since 2012 and Ethereum development since 2016. He received his training as a communications engineer in the United States Marine Corps where he and his unit were responsible for building and maintaining the communications and Internet infrastructure for Iraq's Al Anbar Province during Operation Iraqi Freedom 07-08. These efforts included the engineering of field data centers, satellite communications, and the implementation and management of mission-critical cryptographic assets. After retiring from the Marine Corps, Zak worked in the field of cyber security, network engineering, and applied cryptography. He also ran an Internet agency and worked with Google prior to founding Whiteblock, a blockchain testing company whose clientele includes the Department of Defense, ConsenSys, Beam, RChain, Syscoin, and the Ethereum Foundation.

Zachary Cole

Dominic Williams is Chief Scientist of the DFINITY project, headquartered in Zug, Switzerland, and is President and CTO of String Labs, a Palo Alto-based studio, incubator, and investor focused on advanced open protocol projects. His recent technical works include DFINITY technologies such as the Threshold Relay/Probabilistic Slot Protocol blockchain consensus mechanisms, the Blockchain Nervous System (algorithmic governance for decentralized networks), and the PHI “crypto fiat” autonomous loan issuance system.

Dominic is a crypto theoretician and entrepreneur. His recent research includes Threshold Relay and PSC chains, Validation Towers and Trees, and USCIDs, and he proposes new ideas such as "The 3 E's of Sybil Resistance". Previously he ran a venture-backed MMO game using his own distributed systems that hosted millions of users.

DFINITY working on ICP (Internet Computer Protocol). We will extend the Internet with secure serverless cloud functionality using crypto.

Dominic Williams

Entrepreneur and developer based in San Francisco. Experienced full-stack JS/TS web developer (Node, React, GraphQL, SQL). Ethereum developer. CTO of Connext.

Rahul is a talented and visionary product-focused entrepreneur with a well-rounded skill set. He has experience with both small startups and big companies, leading teams and projects as well as individually contributing.

Rahul is interested in cutting-edge technologies including blockchain, machine learning, AI, and robotics.

Achievements: Status.im Global Hackathon winner "Most Potential", Co-Founder of TipdOff (acquihired by ColorTokens), Tesla Motors promoted multiple times to team lead.

Rahul Sethuram

Jeff Garzik is Builder, Co-founder Bloq Inc, Space Chain & others, proud son of a USMC F-4 pilot.

Husband, father, futurist, author, bitcoin core developer, Linux kernel engineer, cloud computing hacker, armchair foreign policy nerd, kinda sorta libertarian.

Jeff Garzik

Richie Lai is Co-Founder, CIO of Bittrex. He was a security engineering specializing in cyber crimes and areas around malware, botnets, and web exploits. He spent 12 years at Microsoft focusing on security where he helped shape many aspects of the program. His next stop was Qualys, where for a year he helped launch their Malware Detection Service. Today he works at Amazon securing their products, network and infrastructure.

In his spare time, he enjoys photography, poker, and spending time with his wife.

Carlos Sessa

Principal Software Engineer at Expedia Group.

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