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Shawn Tabrizi is a full-time engineer living in Berlin. I was born and raised in the heart of the Bay Area, a breeding pool of technology and innovation. At the age of 13, I began programming, attempting to learn how to hack my PlayStation Portable so I could play free games. Through the PSP hacking community, I discovered the immense potential of computers, programming, and the internet. I graduated from the College of Creative Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, with a degree in Physics and Mathematics. Shortly afterwards, I joined Microsoft to work on Microsoft Azure, their cloud computing services. Recently, I joined Parity Technologies as a Core Developer, working on blockchain infrastructure and the future of decentralization on the web.
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William Pankiewicz
William Pankiewicz is the Master of Validators at Parity Technologies. He was formerly the Lead Blockchain Engineer at Binance, Founder and CEO at Ahania Capital, and Full Stack Blockchain Engineer at AugmentPartners Limited.
Björn Wagner
Bjorn Wagner is the co-founder and CEO of Parity Technologies.
Joe Gerber
Joe Gerber is the founder of IDEO CoLab Ventures and was previously a senior Product Manager at Fidelity Investments.
Hongbo Wen
Hongbo Wen is the co-founder at Nubit. He is a senior Ph.D. student (on-leave) at UCSB, with a B.S. from Tsinghua University. His research in blockchain security has led to the discovery of numerous zero-day vulnerabilities and prevalent flaw patterns, particularly in smart contracts and Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP) Circuits. His notable work includes the pioneering paper 'ZKAP' on identifying bug patterns within ZKP Circuits, presented at USENIX Sec '24.
Hanzhi Liu
Hanzhi Liu is the co-founder at Nubit. He is a Ph.D. student (on-leave) at UCSB, with a B.S. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His research is centered on program verification, language semantics, and compiler optimizations. He has written formal proofs for most of the Ethereum Foundation PSE's projects and has discovered numerous zero-day vulnerabilities. He authored a notable paper on certifying ZKP circuits, accepted for S&P 2024, and has worked on mitigating on-chain attacks.
Colin Goltra
Colin Goltra is the former COO at YGG and the Director of Southeast Asia at Binance, the world's largest Cryptocurrency platform, where he is focused on expanding markets, access, and infrastructure for Crypto throughout the Philippines & Southeast Asia. Colin is an avid collector of NFT-based Crypto Art and an active proponent of Filipino self-empowerment in the Crypto-Metaverse. Along with Gabby Dizon, Colin co-created the Narra Gallery, a virtual gallery space and cultural capital fund meant to help bridge the divide between the Philippines and the crypto world. His thoughts on the Crypto Art movement have also been featured globally in 'The Wall Street Journal,' 'The New York Times Magazine,' as well as numerous other crypto and NFT ecosystem publications.
Binyi Chen
Binyi Chen is Chief Cryptozoologist at Espresso Systems and holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Jutta Steiner
Jutta Steiner was the co-founder and CEO of Parity Technologies. Previously, she was head of security at the Ethereum Foundation, where she oversaw security testing and integration prior to the launch of the Blockchain in 2015.
Eric Wang
Eric Wang is the Head of BD at Analog, where he oversees its go-to-market, partnerships, and strategy. Prior to Analog, he was the Head of Strategic Growth at Parity Technologies, in charge of growing Polkadot’s ecosystem from 2019-2022, and was a General Partner at ROK Capital. Eric is a Chemistry PhD dropout from Stanford and holds a MS from Stanford and BS from UCLA.
Urban Osvald
Urban Osvald is the head of Operations at Wormhole, having previously been the Developer Relations and Engagement Team Lead at Parity Technologies, and he also served as a growth manager at the Web3 Foundation. He is a graduate of Hult International Business School and the University of Ljubljana.