Hector joined Protocol Labs in 2016 as lead developer of the IPFS Cluster project. As part of this and other efforts, he has contributed to many pieces of the IPFS stack. He wrote Merkle-CRDTs: Merkle-DAGs meet CRDTs , and implemented a key-value store based on Merkle-CRDTs. He has also worked on deploying and maintaining production infrastructure for IPFS, Drand and Filecoin. More recently he’s been working on IPFS HTTP gateways and content-filtering for IPFS, authoring the specification for a new denylist format and implementing support in Kubo.