Mikhail Komarov is the founder of =nil; Foundation, a leading developer of trustless infrastructure for zero-knowledge proofs. Mikhail is a researcher and developer in the fields of cryptography and database management systems (DBMS). His journey in technology began in 2013 when he began contributing to BitMessage, a peer-to-peer encrypted communications protocol. He then worked with blockchain network BitShares, and Steemit, the first application built on the Steem blockchain. Mikhail worked on a fork of Steem from 2017 to 2018, before founding =nil; Foundation in April 2018.