Nick Sullivan is a technology leader and cryptography expert with over 20 years of experience in software engineering, research, and architecture, focused on improving security, performance, and privacy on the internet. He founded Cloudflare Research, a hybrid industry–academic research organization dedicated to advancing a more secure and resilient Internet.Nick serves as co-chair of the Crypto Forum Research Group (CFRG) at the IRTF and Messaging Layer Security (MLS) at the IETF.