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David Dias is a Peer-to-Peer Software Engineer at Protocol Labs, creating IPFS and Filecoin. He holds an M.Sc. in Network Engineering and is a Lecturer at T¨¦cnico Lisboa
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Carl Cervone
Carl is the co-founder of Kariba Labs. Kariba's first product is Open Source Observer, an analytics platform that helps foundations and ecosystem funds allocate funding to open source projects. He is also an active Gitcoin Steward and Cup of Excellence board member. Carl is most passionate about using data to improve governance and public goods funding.
Matt Hamilton
Matt Hamilton works in developer relations at Arbitrum, having previously been a lead Developer Advocate at Protocol Labs, and has also worked at Bittensor and Ripple. He graduated from the University of Bristol.
Catrina Wang
Catrina Wang is an investment partner at Portal Ventures and head of Penn Blockchain's alumni network and conferences. She is a graduate of the University of Southern California and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Guy Wuollet
Guy Wuollet is a partner on the a16z crypto investment team. Guy focuses on infrastructure and application layer investments across crypto. He believes decentralized networks can better align incentives on the Internet and enable the future of commerce and communication. Prior to joining a16z, he worked on independent research in concert with Protocol Labs. His work focused on building decentralized networking protocols and upgrading Internet infrastructure. Guy holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University, where he rowed on the Varsity Crew team.
Juan Benet
Juan Benet is the Founder and CEO, and the inventor of InterPlanetary File System (IPFS). He is also the Founder of Filecoin, a cryptocurrency-incentivized storage network. He holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from Stanford University.
Nicola Greco
Nicola Greco is Director of research at Protocol Labs and a PhD student (sabbatical) at MIT, supervised by Tim Berners-Lee. He previously worked at the Berkman Center, Mozilla, and University College London.
Lindsay Walker
Lindsay Walker is the Head of AI Product and Strategy at Lilypad Network, having previously worked at Protocol Labs. She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin.
Jesse Clayburgh
Jesse Clayburgh has been with Protocol Labs since August 2016. Previously, he worked as a software engineer at American Express. He graduated from Stanford University.
Colin Evran
Colin Evran is the Director of ecosystem at Protocol Labs and was previously the founder and CEO of Yard Club.
Evan Miyazono
Evan Miyazono is Head of Research at Protocol Labs. He has lived in California his whole life, bouncing between NorCal and SoCal. He spent enough of his childhood at beaches that a sandy shore always feels familiar; the rest was spent sitting at a computer, reading books, or disassembling things. He eventually majored in Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford after unintentionally picking up minors in math and CS. He was then driven by his curiosity to a Ph.D. in Applied Physics at Caltech and, upon completion, was lead to Protocol Labs by a desire to build systems that affect real people. Evan still loves beaches, reading, and disassembly. Figuring out how things do, should, or could work is a passion, and sharing that knowledge is a favorite hobby. He'll go on for hours if you tell him you're interested in his thesis, so set a time limit before starting on that particular odyssey of quantum optics and nanofabrication.