Olaoluwa Osuntokun is the co-founder and CTO of Lightning Labs, and also the maintainer of the popular lnd implementations of Lightning. He received his B.S and M.S in Computer Science from UCSB and was a member of the Forbes 30 Under 30 class of 2019. During his graduate studies he focused on the field of applied cryptography, specifically encrypted search. He has been an active Bitcoin developer for over 7 years, is an author of several Bitcoin Improvement Proposals (BIP 157+158), and a co-author of Mastering the Lightning Network. These days, his primary focus lies in building, designing, and evolving private, scalable off-chain blockchain protocols, such as Lightning.