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name: Michael Zargham
role: Founder, Chief Technical Officer
email: zargham@lbry.io
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Michael has spent years managing, designing, and overseeing a data science team and framework used to make multi-million dollar purchasing decisions for a large media company. He brings knowledge of the media distribution business, software development expertise, business development experience, technical skill and a network of corporate contacts.

Michael’s ability to rapidly adapt new skill sets makes him a technical and business pocketknife of our startup team. He has a PhD in systems engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, with a focus on distributed systems.