Protocol Berg: Masih Derkani - Indexing the Planet For Good
Channel: Department of Decentralization & ETHBerlin
Date: 2023-10-10

Immutable and verifiable content plays a key role in shaping the future of knowledge sharing for the good of all. At the same time, content represented in such a way amplifies the importance of routing; hashes are hard to remember, content keeps increasing, data moves and so do peers. This begs the question: how would we find “stuff” fast, efficiently and reliably without enabling centralised snooping? Find out what the InterPlanetary Network Indexer is addressing this issue for IPFS and FileCoin network.

Masih Derkani is a computer scientist and software engineer with a passion for building decentralized systems. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of St. Andrews, where his research focused on the intersection of distributed systems and key-based routing in peer-to-peer networks. Masih is a core contributor to the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS), the InterPlanetary Network Indexer (IPNI), and Filecoin decentralized storage network. Throughout his career, he has worked on numerous other decentralized projects with a focus on large-scale data-intensive systems and high availability. Masih is dedicated to advancing the development of decentralized web and has a proven track record of delivering innovative solutions to complex problems in this space.

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