Our Team

Adin has worked as a researcher and founder in peer-to-peer technologies and cryptography, focusing on making communication and data sharing safer, faster, and more reliable. As a core maintainer of IPFS libraries, Adin has contributed across the stack, including Libp2p and Filecoin. Immersed in customer use cases, Adin has a knack for identifying common challenges and demonstrating how IPFS-related technologies can provide effective solutions.

Cameron previously led teams managing critical components of the IPFS and Libp2p ecosystems, including the IPFS.io gateway, JS preload nodes, Libp2p/DHT Bootstrap nodes, IPFS Collab clusters, and the Badbits deny list, among other key responsibilities. Before that, he honed his expertise in distributed systems by contributing to organizations ranging from innovative startups to multinational enterprises, including Atlassian, Rocket Internet, Ververica/Alibaba, and Kraken.

Lidel started first as a community contributor, creating IPFS Companion . He joined Protocol Labs a few years later to work full time on IPFS, where he has been a fierce advocate specifications and IPFS in web browsers , which has had him in the thick of first-party integrations like IPFS in Brave and IPFS in Chromium .

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.

Alex joined Protocol Labs in early 2018 to work on the js-IPFS project. He’s since taken on js-libp2p and recently created Helia, a new IPFS implementation in JavaScript. He is a contributor to most parts of the IPFS/libp2p JavaScript stack and has published several popular open source libraries.

Guillaume joined Protocol Labs in 2022 as a Research Engineer, focusing on peer-to-peer protocol design and analysis, especially in areas like content routing and Distributed Hash Tables (DHTs). He holds a joint Master’s degree in Computer Science - Cybersecurity from EPFL and ETH Zurich. With prior experience at Cisco and IBM Research Europe, Guillaume has been involved in various projects related to network security and efficiency. His work is driven by a passion for advancing Internet Decentralization, Privacy, and the Free/Libre Open Source Software movement, aiming to shape a more secure and accessible digital future.

Andrew joined Protocol Labs in 2020, to work on go-ipfs and related golang projects. Since then, he contributed to IPFS, IPLD, Filecoin, and IPNI projects. At IP Shipyard, he is focused on improving IPFS and related projects. Andrews also continues to help maintain IPNI as well as contributes to other projects involving PL technologies.

Daniel joined Protocol Labs in 2022 as a Developer Advocate for the IPFS Project. Daniel’s background is as a software engineer with broad experience across modern web, cloud environments and distributed systems. In recent years, Daniel’s shifted to developer advocacy and have been fascinated by the overlap between open-source, community building, and software development. He’s passionate about open-source, decentralisation, and modern development tooling and like bringing ideas from different disciplines to software development.

Joined Protocol Labs in 2022 to work on the public IPFS gateway - ipfs.io. Responsible for maintaining all systems operational 24/7 and serving terabytes of traffic every month. Current efforts include rolling-out Rainbow - the fast and resource-efficient IPFS HTTP gateway - across all global locations.

Russell joined Protocol Labs in early 2022 and handled maintenance and improvements for IPFS Desktop , IPFS Web UI , explore.ipld.io , the IPFS public-gateway-checker , and various other libraries, tools, and applications. He has helped organizations throughout Protocol Labs by interviewing potential candidates and assisting with hackathon mentoring & judging. Russell is passionate about improving DX for internal and external teams while building performant software that can scale. Russell now helps to maintain Helia  and js-libp2p  and runs the Helia Working Group . Russell is an ex-senior Software Engineer and Bar-Raiser from AWS, an ex-Nerdery Co-President, ex-PayPal Engineer, and he is proud to mention that he is a USAF veteran.

I joined Protocol Labs in 2023 to work on go-libp2p. Since then I’ve worked on Instrumentation, Smart Dialing and WebRTC. My interest in a decentralized internet and open source brings me to libp2p.