Howard Tam

Consultant, Engineer, Entrepreneur, Foodie, Idea generator, Inventor, Potential employer, Project manager, Technologist, Web guru, World traveler

Howard is a programmer and an aspiring entrepreneur. He runs a software development and design consultancy and is proficient in emergent technologies such as Web3 and Al. He is passionate about the intersection between privacy, Web3 and Al, and has been exploring and developing privacy enhancing technologies within this area. Howard has been leading engineering teams for the past 7 years across various industries. His first project in Web3 was developing smart contracts for CryptoKitties in 2017, and then later led the Dapper Payments and Identity teams to build a digital collectible experience with the NBA, which had seen more than $5MM USD in transactions within 5 months of launching. Recently, he has been developing cryptographic infrastructure with Lit Protocol with a focus on resilience and correctness of applied cryptography. Howard earned a Master's Degree from University of Oxford with a specialization in Electrical Engineering, and spent his final year abroad as an exchange student in Princeton University. He also co-organized the St. Anne's College Incubator, the first-ever startup incubator to be hosted in a college in University of Oxford.

The intersection between privacy, Web3 and AI. Privacy preserving gadgets and AI agents. Local, offline-first compute. Democratizing private-by-default, zero-trust architectures.

Decentralized Key Management: If cryptographic keys underpin the fabric of the modern web, why leave it in the hands of the individual? Decentralized architectures are here to power a new, agentic and trustless internet society.

privacy enhancing technologies

Learning anything, photographic memory, spotting typos