Nadim Kobeissi, originally from Lebanon, is a programmer and cryptography enthusiast whose work focuses on making encryption more accessible to people around the world. He created Cryptocat, one of the world's most popular encrypted chat solutions and a gold standard for easy-to-use private chat. Nadim is a member of the W3C's web cryptography working group and holds a double degree from Concordia University in Montreal. Currently, he acts as cryptography engineer at eQualitie for their DDoS mitigation platform.