Nicolas Schapeler

Interested in how PETs can make us more self-sovereign individuals & hard engineering problems.

Currently, I'm working on Arcium , a confidential computing network to enable generalized trustless & private computations using MPC and ZK.

Email: [email protected]

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Before that, I was on the founding team of TUM Boring where we built the fastest Tunnel Boring Machine in the world and won the first Not-a-Boring-Competition from Elon Musk's Boring Company.

Prior to that, I worked on using TEEs inside smart phones to more securely manage key material: Rivetz.

I studied computer science at the Technical University of Munich, where I was involved with TUM Blockchain Club, Start Munich, and built the (at-the-time) fastest FPGA implementation of the Bitcoin Mining Algorithm.

Other than that, I've previously worked on banking software at Outbank, on high-performance networking for Computer Vision at Nakamir and moonlighted as a briefly moonlighted as a physicist at SLAC.

Outside of the above, I enjoy bouldering, foosball, contributing to OSS I use, and alternating between reading about new cryptographic techniques and comic books.