J. Ayo Akinyele, PhD
Ayo is the CEO of Bolt Labs. Ayo has over a decade of experience implementing open-source cryptographic libraries for both academic and commercial use. Ayo received his PhD in Computer Science in 2013 from Johns Hopkins University specializing in applied cryptography and cryptographic engineering. These include Charm-Crypto: a rapid prototyping framework for advanced cryptography in Python and OpenABE: a commercial-grade attribute-based encryption library in C/C++. Several years of experience evaluating the security of cryptocurrency and blockchain projects such as Handshake and Bitcoin Core in addition to open source cryptographic libraries like bcrypto, libsodium, OpenVPN, and others.