Dr. Marta Piekarska

Dr. Marta Piekarska works in Balancer labs, is a member of the Technical Governing Board in Sovrin Foundation, and is a head of Enterprise Collaboration in Cambridge Blockchain Society. She has served as the Director of Ecosystem at Hyperledger until March 2021. Prior to Hyperledger, Piekarska worked as a Security Architect at Blockstream. She obtained her B.Sc. in electrical and computer engineering from Warsaw University of Technology and a double master in computer science and informatics at Technical University of Berlin and Warsaw University of Technology. Her undergrad thesis was on voice encryption on android platform and grad work on GPU-aided payload delivery on Linux Kernel. Piekarska recently received Ph.D. in user-informed design of privacy tools, while working for one of the hottest Silicon Valley startups, Blockstream, as their Security Architect. As a post-doc, she also teaches and works at Technical University of Berlin.