Meet Our Team

Say hello to a globally distributed set of wicked smart & highly curious people. Our world-class applied research lab collaborates with a broad ecosystem to build a future Internet that is local-first, offline-first, resilient, and accessible.

(in order of appearance)
Brooklyn Zelenka

Brooklyn Zelenka

CTO & Co-founder
expede#9455

Initially trained as a composer, Brooklyn fell into programming nearly by accident, and has never looked back. Her belief in open standards has lead to work spanning authorization, VMs, data privacy, databases, sync protocols, and others.

Boris Mann

Boris Mann

CEO & Co-founder
borismann#5151

Boris Mann is a long time web tinkerer who got started with open source in the early 2000s, building worldwide developer communities and events when open source was still a radical act. Today you’ll find him continuing this with the DWeb, IPFS, and Filecoin communities. Boris lives in Vancouver, Canada where he likes to cook and eat.

Steven Vandevelde

Steven Vandevelde

Engineer
icidasset#5934

James Walker

James Walker

VP of Engineering
walkah#6628

Brian

Brian

Protocol Engineer
bgins#3455

Brian is protocol engineer on the Fission ODD SDK team. He loves frontend web development, teaching, audio programming, and cycling through the woods.

Philipp Krüger

Philipp Krüger

Protocol Engineer
matheus23#1693

Working on the WNFS spec & implementation. Really into commons networks, user agency, programming languages and badminton.

Jeff Griffiths

Jeff Griffiths

Head of Product
jeffg#2635

Chad Kohalyk

Chad Kohalyk

Head of Operations
chadkoh#7744

Chad works with all Fissioneers on the challenges of a fully distributed, remote-first, asynchronous organization operating on five continents. When not turning principles into processes he is nomading with his camera, posting historical tidbits on various decentralized social media.

Andy

Andy

Engineer
andiivii#6762

Quinn Wilton

Quinn Wilton

Protocol Engineer
quinn#2371

Ryan Betts

Ryan Betts

Head of Design
depatchedmode#5383

Helping Fission make nice looking things that behave very well for as many people as possible. My other computer is a drum kit.

Stephen Akinyemi

Stephen Akinyemi

Engineer
appcypher#1632

Kaleb Alves

Kaleb Alves

SRE
forgondolin#2109

I try to make sure that the production environment is up. I like to teach, learn and solve problems. Talk to me about - SDR, DSP, VFX, FPGA's, Jazz, Sci-Fi, Ancient Cultures and Tolkien, or pretty much anything. Oh, I enjoy Whisky!

Bruno Monteiro

Bruno Monteiro

Illustrator / Designer
brunomonts#7375

São Paulo-based designer experienced in designs of various flavors. You name it: illustration, graphic, web, printing, etc. Lover of movie nights and cooking for friends.

Chris Bentzen

Chris Bentzen

Event Coordinator
bentzen#2038

Event Coordinator and other random ops for Fission. Living on the unceded land of the Snuneymuxw (Nanaimo, BC).

Becky Vazquez

Becky Vazquez

Marketing Communications Producer
heybeckyv#3093

Becky leads Fission's marketing and communications efforts through content creation, video, email, and social media marketing. When she's not sharing Fission's story, you can find her studying folklore and learning ancient languages.

Zeeshan Lakhani

Zeeshan Lakhani

Staff Research Engineer
zeeshanlakhani

Zeeshan Lakhani is a Staff Researcher Engineer at Fission, working on local-first software, and leading efforts on Homestar, an open-world compute engine related to IPVM and Wasm execution. Additionally, he is co-founder and organizer of Papers We Love and PWLConf and a Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science, studying Programming Language Theory. Formerly, he was director of fraud engineering and strategic research at BlockFi, drove programmable networking at Comcast, worked on impactful distributed systems at Basho, co-wrote the Readability 2.0 iOS app while at Arc90, and helped drive interactive content at NYPL Labs.

Blaine Cook

Blaine Cook

Engineer
blaine#0675

Bastien Dehaynin

Bastien Dehaynin

Technical Program Manager
M.C. Smooth#3051

Hugo Dias

Hugo Dias

Engineer
hugomrdias#9246

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