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Olaoluwa Osuntokun

Co-Founder & CTO at Lightning Labs

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Olaoluwa Osuntokun is the Chief Technology Officer at Lightning Labs, an open protocol that leverages blockchain to enable private transactions anywhere in the world. He holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara. During his graduate studies, he focused on the field of applied cryptography, specifically encrypted search. Before becoming an active contributor to the Bitcoin open source ecosystem, he spent three consecutive summers as a Software Engineering Intern at Google.

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