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Riyaz Faizullabhoy is CTO at a16z Crypto. Formerly, Security Infrastructure, Blockchain at Facebook, founding engineer at Anchorage, Security Engineer at Docker. Work hard, be kind.

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Riyaz Faizullabhoy

Hayden Adams is Founder of Uniswap. Ethereum developer, Inventor of the Uniswap Exchange Protocol.

Hayden Adams

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

In this website, I talk about “real” stuff, or anything that involves me (that is, “Wei Tang”). I write about computer science, philosophy, and occasionally about art and music. Topics ranges from Functional Reactive Programming, why we need details in writings, to why I failed in my first startup.

Wei Tang

Rod Vagg is Software Engineer and Researcher at Protocol Labs, focused on Node.js, JavaScript, Golang, Distributed Data Systems. Expert in: Software Architecture, Security, Node.js Enterprise best practices, Open Source Software.

Rod Vagg

Andrew Lee is Co-Founder and CTO of Handshake Protocol, Founded Purse.io. Making Crypto Useful: for consumers at Purse, for developers with Bcoin, and for industry with HBV.

He drives the company’s strategy, partnerships, and growth. Andrew draws on his previous experience founding an ISO, covering emerging payments at Merrill Lynch, and optimizing processes as an engineer at LG. He earned an MBA from Georgia Tech and a bachelor’s from the University of Florida.

Andrew Lee

Luis Iván Cuende is Co-founder and Lead of Aragon, Co-founder of Stampery. Advisor of Primitive, district0x, Status.im, Decentraland, KEEP.

Free software lover and hacker. Forbes 30 under 30 and MIT TR35. Named as best programmer of Europe under 18 by HackFwd. Advisor to the Vice President of the European Comission. Published my first book at 18. Enjoying life and empowering freedom.

Luis Ivan Cuende

Noah Zinsmeister is senior 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

Igor Barinov is an award-winning blockchain expert known for pioneering developments in blockchain enabled notary. Igor is currently a project manager of POA Network, a foundation that launched POA Network, which is open, permissioned and public blockchain network based on Ethereum protocol with Proof-of-Authority (PoA) consensus reached by independent, pre-selected validators. Igor devotes all his time to innovating around blockchain scalability and making open networks more affordable for businesses.

Prior to POA Network, the developer and serial entrepreneur co-founded Block Notary, a notary for the digital age built on blockchain technology. Data records produced through Block Notary products can be used as self-authenticating evidence based on State of Vermont’s blockchain application law. He also developed the first Know Your Customer (KYC) application recognized by the state. Concurrently, he built several closed PoA-based networks for various businesses. Insights from these experiences laid a foundation for POA Network project.

Igor holds more than 16 blockchain and computer programming accolades and won blockchain hackathons at the Consensus, Texas Bitcoin Conference, BitHack, and Distributed Trade. He also holds 12 professional certifications in programming and data science as well as deep learning in the design of memory networks, implementation of generative models, design and training segmentation systems and neural translation systems from the University of San Francisco. Igor graduated from Russian State Technological University with a degree in material science, studied computer science at Lomonosov Moscow State University and attended Blockchain University.

Igor Barinov

Works on ethereum. Based Dublin, Berlin and Blockchain. More specifically solidity & ewasm. Too lazy to tweet. Follow on http://github.com/axic

Riyaz Faizullabhoy

CTO at a16z Crypto.