An introduction to the Enigma developers, and how you can get involved

Hi to all from Enigma! As we all continue to work on the Catalyst product and reconcile our token sale, we wanted to take a moment to properly introduce the main developers behind Enigma. A later post will focus on the other members of our core team that are working hard to scale our project, platform, partners, and community.

Thanks again for following Enigma. If you’re interested in joining our team and helping us build the future of crypto trading and data, please read additional info at the end of this post.

Guy Zyskind

Guy Zyskind

Guy is the CEO and co-founder of Enigma. He is a long time tinkerer, most comfortable sitting at the intersection of entrepreneurship and research. Prior to Enigma, Guy was a graduate student at MIT researching and teaching blockchain technology. Guy has authored several academic papers around cryptocurrencies, including the Enigma white paper (downloaded over 100K times) and “Decentralizing Privacy: Using Blockchain to Protect Personal Data”, which is one of the most cited papers in the space. Previously, Guy led the development of several start-up companies. Most notably, he was the Chief Technology Officer at Athena Wisdom (now Endor), an MIT Media Lab spin-off company involving Big Data Analytics and Network Science. Guy holds a M.S. from MIT and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Tel-Aviv University.

Victor Grau Serrat

Victor Grau Serrat

Victor speaks many languages, both natural languages and programming languages. As a senior developer at Enigma, he predominantly codes in Python, which is the language of choice for Catalyst, an algorithmic trading platform and Enigma’s first product. Having learnt version control software in the early days of Subversion, now he heavily relies on Github to manage the development of open-sourced Catalyst and other Enigma repositories. With a Master’s in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Maryland, Victor brings more than fifteen years experience in software development that includes developing electronic medical records with JavaServer Pages, firmware engineering of WiFi drivers in embedded systems using C for high latency networks, and interactive online ads programmed in Flash and ActionScript. For 7+ years, Victor was the co-director of MIT D-Lab, a research and academic program at the intersection of technology innovation, social entrepreneurship and global poverty. Under his leadership, the D-Lab’s academic offerings quadrupled and its staff and operational budget grew tenfold. Victor also previously created his own algorithmic trading platform that traded live with a leading exchange, and he’s finally found his tribe in joining the Enigma team to develop Catalyst.

Frederic Fortier

Frederic Fortier

Frederic is a senior software developer specializing in finance. Prior to joining Enigma, he designed and implemented several enterprise applications for some of North America’s largest financial institutions. He primarily develops software in Python, but also has deep expertise with Java and JavaScript. Passionate about the financial markets, he has been trading equities and options since the dawn of online brokerage. His idea of fun is to read research papers on quantitative trading, trying to put them into practice. Over the years, he has live-traded several profitable strategies. His platform of choice is Zipline, which he knows inside and out. He joined Enigma partly to scratch his own itch, which is to build a high-grade quantitative trading platform for cryptocurrencies. He holds double degrees in Computer Science and Finance, as well as a Master of Science in E-Commerce from the Université de Sherbrooke.