Driven by Mission-Critical Engineering
Soqucoin Labs is the commercial acceleration arm of the post-quantum ecosystem. While the Soqucoin Foundation stewards the open-source protocol as a public good, Labs builds the hardened infrastructure that powers the global economy.
Cybersecurity engineer and serial inventor with 25+ years spanning U.S. Air Force combat communications, defense contractors (L-3 Communications, Hill AFB), and Fortune 100 cloud security. CISSP-certified with an M.S. in Network Security (Dakota State) and PhD coursework in Systems Security Engineering (Colorado State). Patent-pending inventor of an AI/ML compliance automation engine at a Fortune 500 cloud provider. Service-disabled veteran with Secret/SAP clearance (2001–2016).
At Soqucoin Labs: architected the SOQ protocol from genesis. the first production-grade post-quantum L1 blockchain with native FIPS 204 (ML-DSA-44) signatures. Built PQCAT to v2.6.2 (10 scanner modules, 11 compliance frameworks, ML-KEM hybrid detection and zk-STARKs Confidential Compliance Engine). Filed 10 Soqucoin Labs patents spanning PQC consensus, lattice-based privacy, post-quantum wallets, lattice-folding batch verification, compliance engines, and cloud scanning. Led the codebase through a top-tier Halborn Security audit (10 findings + 20 informational items, all remediated).
Seasoned marketing strategist and storyteller who has built campaigns that helped lead $50M and $100M investment rounds for Flipside Crypto and Braintrust. As founder of Scalable Storytelling, his client roster spans Fortune 500s (Pfizer, Discover), top-tier VC firms (Variant, ConsenSys Mesh), and leading web3 startups (Filecoin, Parcel, Portabl, and others).
As CMO for Arch Network, wrote the whitepaper and led all marketing from seed round through testnet launch — reaching 1M+ connected wallets, 15M+ viewers, and 600K+ social followers. Continues as advisor and contributor as Arch approaches mainnet and TGE.
An award-winning journalist whose reporting has been showcased by the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, MSNBC, and others. Served as the Washington D.C. correspondent and senior political reporter at OZY Magazine for nearly six years, covering two presidential elections while reporting from all 50 states and 6 continents.
8+ years leading complex large-scale implementations at Instructure. Expert in cross-functional stakeholder alignment and go-to-market strategy, ensuring on-time delivery of the Soqucoin mainnet.
14 years securing mission-critical distributed systems at NASA, now specializing in blockchain security and DeFi protocol architecture. Leads the USDSOQ stablecoin and Layer 2 SOQ Lightning development.
15+ years engineering enterprise infrastructure at scale. Currently leads IT Systems Engineering at a unicorn-valued enterprise SaaS company, managing production Linux environments, container orchestration, and CI/CD pipelines. 7 years as systems administrator at a leading EdTech platform. Brings battle-tested ops discipline to L1 blockchain node operations, network reliability, and deployment automation.
Consulting Security Architect, formerly at a Fortune 100 cloud infrastructure provider and L3Harris. Over a decade protecting enterprise and government cloud platforms.
20+ years in mission-critical systems for DoD/DOE. National laboratory-grade secure C++ and embedded systems expertise.
Vice President at Oracle Corporation for over 14 years, where she built and led security governance, risk, and compliance programs across 11 highly regulated industry verticals. In 26 years at Oracle, Jari stood up award-winning security programs from the ground up, drove enterprise risk management for global cloud services, and oversaw cybersecurity, privacy, and regulatory compliance at the VP level. Her work spans financial services, healthcare, public sector, and critical infrastructure. M.S. from Long Island University, Haas School of Business program (UC Berkeley).
Actively engaging CISOs and chief security officers from financial services, critical infrastructure, defense, and healthcare industries. Board-level oversight of risk management, compliance posture, and quantum-readiness strategy.
Blockchain visionary and Founder of Ace Miners (AceMiners.io). One of the first to connect crypto mining and enterprise AI compute at scale. Zara saw early that the power, cooling, and site acquisition work behind proof-of-work mining is the same skill set needed for AI/HPC workloads. Today Ace Miners develops 20MW to 100MW+ data center sites built for GPU clusters and large language model training. The company is also an authorized Bitmain distribution partner with direct supply chain access in Shenzhen and Hong Kong, and launched a 2,000-unit NFT collection on Ethereum that gives holders direct access to hydro-powered hashrate.
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Dr. Archith Rayabharam
Cryptographic Research
Postdoctoral Fellow at UT Austin's Oden Institute. PhD in Computational Physics (UIUC) with 381+ citations. Specializes in lattice-based cryptography simulations and high-performance computing optimization.
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Sankar Narayanan Srinivasan
Security Analysis
M.S. Cyber Security (UNC Charlotte). Enterprise threat analysis, smart contract testing, and infrastructure monitoring.
We are actively forming a world-class advisory board of Fortune 500 CISOs, CIOs, and government security executives. Interested in joining? Get in touch.