Ania Piotrowska
Co-Founder & Chief Scientific Officer at Nym
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAnia Piotrowska is a privacy-focused technology leader and co-founder currently serving as Chief Scientific Officer at Nym Technologies, with nearly a decade of experience at the intersection of research and engineering. Trained as a PhD researcher in information security at UCL, she builds and secures anonymity-preserving systems—drawing on deep expertise in mix-nets, traffic analysis, and decentralized credentials. At Nym she has led core backend and security work, including designing authentication token generation, client registration flows, and HMAC-based verification for a high-profile open-source privacy network. Her background includes research internships at DeepMind and Chainalysis, blending academic rigor with practical engineering and threat-aware system design. Based in the UK, she combines entrepreneurial drive with a track record of turning complex privacy research into deployable, auditable infrastructure.
9 years of coding experience
Master of Science (MSc) Computer Science Algorithm Analysis, Master of Science (MSc) Computer Science Algorithm Analysis at Wrocław University of Science and TechnologyUniversity College London
Github Skills (8)
decentralization10
user-authentication10
authentication10
rust10
hmac10
back-end-development10
sha10
security10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nymtech/nym
Dec 2019 - Jan 2023
Nym provides strong network-level privacy against sophisticated end-to-end attackers, and anonymous transactions using blinded, re-randomizable, decentralized credentials.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:22 reviews, 150 commits, 7 PRs in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Ania primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Nym project, with a focus on implementing and securing client authentication. Their work involved the creation of a new authentication token generation system, the implementation of client registration functionality, and the integration of HMAC for token verification. The user also made changes to the request/response objects, further indicating a focus on securing the system. Their efforts demonstrate a significant involvement in the core architecture of the provider.
decentralizationend-to-endprivacy-enhancing-technologiesprivacysecurity
aniampio/Simulator
Nov 2020 - Jul 2021
Mix network simulator
Contributions:50 commits, 1 PR, 22 pushes in 8 months
simulatornetwork-simulatormix
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