Adin Schmahmann

Adin Schmahmann is a Co-Founder & Software Engineer and Director and Engineering Leader at Interplanetary Shipyard, based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Adin's work focuses on making the web more decentralized and resilient through peer-to-peer technologies and cryptography, specifically with IPFS and libp2p.

Previously, Adin served as IPFS Tech Lead and Go IPFS Tech Lead at Protocol Labs, guiding the technical development of IPFS and its Go-based implementations like kubo and boxo. Adin is also a contributor to libp2p and an alumnus of the Protocol Labs Venture Studio.

Adin's experience includes founding SurgeLocker, where Adin designed a cryptographic system for secure real-time document collaboration, and conducting research at MIT Lincoln Laboratory on cryptographic security for cloud data.

Adin holds a Master of Engineering and a Bachelor of Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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