Adam Spiers

Adam Spiers is CTO & Co-founder of Toucan, which builds onchain carbon markets. He was formerly Senior Architect designing cryptographic privacy protocols using ZKP (Zero Knowledge Proofs) at Panther Protocol, and has built rolod0x, a privacy-preserving web3 address book.

Adam has been a passionate contributor to many Free / Open Source Software projects since 1995 including git, zsh, and GNU Stow. He has a particular interest in automation / tools for developer efficiency. For 17 years his professional focus was enterprise Linux and approaches to distributed computing, working at Lehman Brothers, Novell, and SUSE.  He holds a degree in Mathematics and Computation from Oxford University.