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Zeshan Ali, also known by his pseudonym, Sass (shortened from his initial nickname No Sass), is one of the four co-founders of Yuga Labs, the company behind and responsible for the creation of the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC). Zeshan graduated from the University of Maryland, studying Computer Science.
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James Hall
James Hall is the Head of Engineering at Yuga Labs and was previously the Engineering Manager at Shopify and Director of Engineering at Dribbble. He is a graduate of Georgia Southern University.
Quit
Quit is the VP of Blockchain at Yuga Labs and founder of oSnipe.
Ramu Arunachalam
Ramu Arunachalam is the General Partner at A.Capital. Ramu was most recently a Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. A computer scientist by training, Ramu has over a decade of operating experience in product management and engineering at both startups and public companies. Prior to Andreessen Horowitz, Ramu led new product initiatives in Big Data for Aster Data (acquired by Teradata). Earlier in his career, Ramu was an engineer at VMware and part of the team that developed the industry’s first virtual switch for VMware’s flagship ESX server product line. Ramu holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, an MS in Computer Science from the University of Maryland and a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering (with University Honors) from Carnegie Mellon University.
Faryar Shirzad
Faryar Shirzad, chief policy officer at Coinbase, previously worked at Goldman Sachs for 15 years and is a graduate of Harvard Kennedy School and the University of Maryland.
Spencer T.
Spencer T. is the Chief Product Officer of Faraway Games and was previously the Chief Game Officer at Yuga Labs. He graduated from Intercontinental University.
John C. Vernaleo
John C. Vernaleo is Hemi's Head Engineer and Vice President of Engineering at Bloq. He holds a Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of Maryland.
David Hirsch
David Hirsch is the managing Partner at Compound VC and previously worked at Google. He graduated from the University of Maryland.
Himanshu Tyagi
Himanshu Tyagi is a co-founder of Sentient and Witness Chain and an associate professor at the Indian Institute of Science. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland and a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.
Christine Perry
Christine Perry is the former VP Solutions Engineering at Skale Labs, building highly configurable elastic sidechains for Ethereum.
Andrew Miller
Andrew Miller is an Associate Professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in Electrical and Computer Engineering and affiliate in Computer Science. Andrew Miller is also an Associate Director of the Initiative for Cryptocurrencies and Contracts (IC3) and a board member of the Zcash Foundation. He received my Ph.D. from the University of Maryland Cybersecurity Center. His research interests are broadly in computer security, and focused on the design of secure decentralized systems and cryptocurrencies.
