John Backus

John Backus is a founding research scientist at Stanford Bitcoin Group, and John served as Technical Lead at Bloom.He is an expert at identity infrastructure, previously engineering data preprocessing algorithms for large-scale entity extraction fordeterministic and probabilistic record linkage. This is currently implemented into Cognito’s core identity resolution and record linkage infrastructure, now 14 processing identity and compliance for tens of millions of cryptocurrency users globally.

Details:

• Organization:Bloom 
• Location:United States
• Education: BS, Computer Science from Stanford University
• Skills: Web Development and Robotics

Experience:

• CTO of Cognito at Plaid from Jan 2022 - Present
• Co-Founder, CTO at Cognito from Jul 2013 - Present
• Technical Lead at Bloom from Sep 2017 - Aug 2018 
• Software Developer at KZO Innovations  from Jun 2009 - Sep 2011