Michael Egorov is Co-founder and CTO at NuCypher. Before starting NuCypher, Michael worked on infrastructure tools at LinkedIn, where he faced some of the thorniest scaling challenges in the world. He has experience as a scientist and physicist, where he worked in an area closely related to quantum computing and cryptography. Michael was a bronze medalist in the 2003 International Physics Olympiad and graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.