Ryan Shea is a tech entrepreneur, software engineer and Princeton University alumnus. His expertise lies in blockchain technology and cryptography. Ryan co-founded Blockstack, a developer platform that aims to create decentralized apps, and helped it raise $55M in funding thus far. He is passionate about building companies, developing products, and growing communities.

Before Blockstack, Ryan co-founded GraphMuse, a software-as-a-service company. He was the President of the Princeton Entrepreneurship Club and received his degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University. Ryan has authored several popular open-source libraries in cryptography and blockchain technology.

Ryan has also worked as a software engineer at ZocDoc and as Marketing and Operations at OmniActive Health Technologies. He has studied entrepreneurship at Y Combinator and participated in a summer program at Stanford University.