Dominic Williams
Dominic Williams is the Founder and Chief Scientist at the DFINITY, the largest blockchain tech and cryptography employer in Switzerland and the DACH Region. He is also responsible for building the decentralized cloud platform, Internet Computer. Over the past 20 years, Dominic has had a distinguished career as a crypto theoretician and serial entrepreneur focused on the Internet and distributed systems. Before transitioning to work full time in crypto in 2013, Dominic was an engineering entrepreneur that created multiple internet technologies and products.
Dominic Williams Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Founder and Chief Scientist
Academic History
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B.S., Computer Science, First Class Honours
Since its inception in 2016, DFINITY’s mission has been to transform the public internet into a powerful decentralized cloud to host the next-generation of software and services.
The DFINITY Foundation is the primary developer of technology used to power the Internet Computer (ICP), a third generation blockchain.
Internet Computer is the world's first web-speed, internet-scale public blockchain.
CRYPTOGRAPHY
Dominic was the President and Chief Technology Officer of String Labs, a boutique incubator of open protocol and next generation crypto projects.
His scientific discoveries across Threshold Relay and PSC chains, Validation Towers and Trees, USCIDs, and The 3 E's of Sybil Resistance have pioneered new approaches to cryptography and blockchain technology.
EARLY CAREER
Dominic founded Fight My Monster, a massively multiplayer online (MMO) game with an explosive growth rate with millions of users.
During this time, he pioneered several distributed computing techniques to successfully build semi-decentralized systems as a means to scale out the game.
In 2003, he founded and sold System 7, a SaaS platform for creating and operating high-end commercial web portals, which helped bring major publishers and government organizations online.
In 2001, he founded Airdocs, a remote file sharing and access product, which connected mobile users to corporate file servers over cellular network connections.
MEDIA & APPEARANCES
Dominic has been featured or quoted in Business Insider, CoinDesk, and Cointelegraph.
He has appeared as a guest on Real Vision.