Algorand Developers

We’re excited to welcome five new team members joining from Algorand Technologies. Chris Peikert, professor of computer science at the University of Michigan and leading post-quantum cryptographer, has joined the Algorand Foundation as Chief Scientific Officer. Chris led Algorand’s post-quantum security implementations and will continue this work as Chief Scientific Officer. Additionally, four engineers joined from AT, strengthening the Foundation’s technical team under our newly appointed CTO, Bruno Martins. John Jannotti joined as SVP of Protocol Engineering and will lead the Protocol Engineering team. Pavel Zbitskiy and an additional team member joined as Principal Protocol Engineers under John. Additionally, John Lee joined as Director of Protocol Infrastructure. Welcome to the team!

We’re excited to announce three promotions across the Foundation. Bruno Martins, formerly Chief Architect and twice acting CTO, has been appointed Chief Technology Officer. Bruno will oversee protocol engineering and will bring his deep expertise in blockchain engineering, applied cryptography, and key management systems to drive Algorand’s future innovations. Will Beaumont, formerly Head of Pera Wallet, has been promoted to Global Head of Product & Integrations. Will will be responsible for product strategy and solutions delivery across both business and engineering, including the Pera Wallet. Brian Whippo, former Head of Developer Relations, has been promoted to Senior Director of Integrations & Developer Tooling. Brian will be responsible for developer relations and developer tooling, and he will build out a new practice to help businesses, ecosystem partners, and AI agents bring new activity on-chain.

A small thank you to everyone using Claude: We’re doubling usage outside our peak hours for the next two weeks.