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Sergey-Gorbunov

Sergey Gorbunov

co-founder | engineering

Assist Prof UWaterloo | founding team member at Algorand; design and development of the platform; head of cryptography | PhD MIT | Software-Defined-Networks @UToronto | crypto @IBM | co-author of many crypto protocols & standards.

Georgios-Vlachos

Georgios Vlachos

co-founder | engineering

Founding team member at Algorand; design and development of the consensus; head of mathematics | Gold Medal at the International Math Olympiad | BSc and MS Eng. MIT.

Christian-Gorenflo

Christian Gorenflo

engineering

Over 10 years of experience in software engineering and systems research | PhD in Computer Science (UWaterloo), focusing on performance optimizations for distributed ledger systems | MSc in Physics (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) | passioned about agile dev and process optimization.

Gus-Gutoski

Gus Gutoski

engineering

PhD (UWaterloo) in quantum information and cryptography | post-doc at the Institute for Quantum Computing and the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics | crypto research at Isara and ConsenSys | co-author of qTESLA, a post-quantum signature scheme, and gnark, a ZK proofs library.

Stelios-Daveas

Stelios Daveas

engineering

5 years experience in software engineering | BSc in Computer Science | MSc Thesis on blockchain interoperability | Blockchain researcher at Decrypto Lab | Passioned dev.

Joao-Sousa

João Sousa

engineering

The lead developer of BFT-SMaRt, a high-performance Byzantine fault-tolerant state machine replication library | PhD from the University of Lisbon | Awarded the William C. Carter PhD Dissertation Award for significant contribution to the field of dependable and secure computing.

Kate-Stapleton

Kate Stapleton

Community

Over 5 years of experience in technical community development | Vice President of the Blockchain Education Network | BA University of Concordia | BBA York University.

Sammy-Liu

Sammy Liu

engineering

Over 5 years experience in software development with over 3 years experience in both enterprise and public blockchains | BSc from the University of Toronto | Passionate about scalability, interoperability and privacy.

Jackson-Virgo

Jackson Virgo

engineering

Shipped multiple consumer and commercial blockchain products on Ethereum | BEng. with BFin. from the University of Adelaide | Awarded First Class Honours for research thesis on unlisted equity securitisation and exchange on Ethereum.

Haiyi-Zhong

Haiyi Zhong

engineering

Experience in shipping crypto asset management applications and products on public blockchains | BSC from the University of Waterloo | Developer at Swissborg | Founding team member at Parallel.fi.

Michael-De-Luca

Michael De Luca

engineering

B.Eng. (McGill) in Electrical Engineering | Blockchain Tech Lead at Scotiabank | Blockchain Lead at Coinsquare | Previously built cold/hot-wallet solutions, blockchain systems, smart contracts, DeFi, and state aggregation/roll-ups.

Jacky-Yuan

Jacky Yuan

engineering

BASc (UWaterloo) in Computer Engineering | Oracle Blockchain dev at ConsenSys | Self Sovereign Identity at SecureKey | Consulting work in blockchain, DeFi, Oracles for Dfinity, Ampleforth, Zilliqa, Gvos.

Milap-Sheth

Milap Sheth

engineering

BMath (UWaterloo) in Computer Science | Software dev at ISARA | Engineering and research experience in secure communication protocols, cryptography, and quantum computing.

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