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Will Carter

Will established the Cayman-based xx team responsible for original research in consensus and blockchain solutions. He earned a BS in Computer Science, with honors, from California Polytechnic State University. As a student, he did research in FPGA and GPU accelerated computer vision at NASA JPL. At Parsons Corporation, he helped manage engineering projects with $200M+ budgets, in partnership with Raytheon and the US Air Force.

Will joined David Chaum’s optics research lab in 2013 and was responsible for optical modeling and for exploring and prototyping laser and holographic designs for high-performance headworn displays. He also led the productization of low-cost, high-performance 4k cinematic headset. He developed the original business case for xx network with Chaum and has been part of the executive team since its founding. In addition to leading the xx Consensus software development team, Will has led the design and implementation of the xx approach to tokenomics, staking, and governance.

Current Work

Chief Technical Officerxx network

Previous Work

Chief Product OfficerElixxir
Aug 2017 – May 2019
Co-Founder, Product Manager, Software EngineerTrecento
Feb 2015 – Apr 2018
Software EngineerTrecento
Oct 2013 – Feb 2015
FounderExpanse
Aug 2015 – Aug 2017

Education

California State Polytechnic University-PomonaBachelor's Degree, Computer Science
2012 – 2014
Virginia Military InstituteBS, Mathematics and Computer Science
✎ Last updated Aug. 4, 2026