About the Contributors

Kedar Iyer is a software engineer who has worked with satellite systems, autonomous robotics, and blockchain technologies. He was the co-founder of LetsChai, an India-based dating site. His most recent focus has been on blockchain technologies. He is the creator of PeerBet, a peer-to-peer sports betting platform on the Ethereum blockchain. He has a degree in mechanical engineering from UCLA and currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Solomon Lederer, PhD, is a founder of blockmatics.tech, a blockchain training and consulting firm, and the founder of Coinspace, a blockchain-focused co-working space. He is also partner and head of technology at Iterative Instinct, a private investment fund focused on crypto-assets. He has a doctorate in distributed and ad hoc sensor networks, where he developed novel ways for networks to self-organize. Before blockchain, he worked as a software engineer in the defense and finance industries. He has been working with/teaching blockchain technology and Ethereum since 2014.

René Madsen is an enterprise solution architect at Progressive A/S, specializing in blockchain development and big data for many enterprise organizations across western Europe. He is also an adjunct lecturer at Copenhagen Business School in Denmark. He has a master’s degree in computer science from Copenhagen University and an MBA from Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University.

Michael Wuehler is a founder of Ethereum and INFURA. He is a blockchain evangelist at ConsenSys, a leading blockchain venture production studio. He leads a global team in building an ecosystem of consumer-centric products and enterprise solutions using blockchain technologies, primarily Ethereum. He is a business and information systems leader with 25 years of experience and a broad-based background that spans technical and business infrastructure, transformation, and operations. He attended the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He lives in New York City.

About the Technical Editor

Sean T. McKeough is the co-founder of Blockmatics, a leader in the blockchain education space. He regularly meets with leaders from a variety of industries to help them understand this transformative technology and how they might apply it to their business or passion. Sean is a community organizer at heart and is a regular in the New York and Colorado blockchain event scene. You can get in touch with Sean at 21.co/mckeough.