{"id":"luke-champine","version":1,"language":"en","title":"Luke Champine","hidden":false,"content":"**Luke Champine** is one of the co-founders of [Sia](https://iq.wiki/wiki/sia), a decentralized cloud storage platform using [blockchain](https://iq.wiki/wiki/blockchain) technology for security, and the CEO of the Sia Foundation. [\\[1\\]](#cite-id-6tcmwe9g68o)  \n  \n# Education  \n  \nChampine attended the University of New Hampshire in 2010 but later transferred to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he graduated with a B.S. in Computer Engineering. [\\[1\\]](#cite-id-6tcmwe9g68o)  \n  \nWhile at Rensselaer, he worked as a presales technical intern at Kronos and a platform mapping engineering intern at Akamai Technologies. [\\[1\\]](#cite-id-6tcmwe9g68o)  \n  \n# Career  \n  \nIn 2013, Champine participated in HackMIT with [David Vorick](https://iq.wiki/wiki/david-vorick), a software developer he met at Rensselaer, where they collaborated on the early form of Sia, a decentralized cloud storage using blockchain, and the Siacoin. The following year, they founded Nebulous Inc., a company focused on developing Sia. [\\[1\\]](#cite-id-6tcmwe9g68o)  \n  \nNebulous Inc. later split into Skynet Labs and the Sia Foundation in 2021. Champine became the CEO and president of the Sia Foundation. [\\[2\\]](#cite-id-vof6opze708)","summary":"Luke Champine is the co-founder of decentralized cloud storage platform Sia, CEO of the Sia Foundation, and a computer engineering graduate from Rensselaer Poly...","categories":[{"id":"people","title":"People in crypto"}],"promoted":0,"tags":[{"id":"Founders"},{"id":"Developers"}],"metadata":[{"id":"references","value":"[{\"id\":\"6tcmwe9g68o\",\"url\":\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/lukechampine/\",\"description\":\"Luke Champine | LinkedIn\",\"timestamp\":1709585059962},{\"id\":\"vof6opze708\",\"url\":\"https://docs.sia.tech/get-started-with-sia/sia101\",\"description\":\"Learn About Sia | Sia Docs\",\"timestamp\":1709585153672}]"},{"id":"website","value":"https://lukechampine.com/"},{"id":"twitter_profile","value":"https://twitter.com/lukechampine?lang=en"},{"id":"linkedin_profile","value":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/lukechampine"},{"id":"github_profile","value":"https://github.com/lukechampine"},{"id":"medium_profile","value":"https://medium.com/@lukechampine"},{"id":"previous_cid","value":"QmVwmAQcMgg9rDG7ZbVgartt7TVbW1CV8TUvuVvjWRKPLR"}],"user":{"id":"0xacb6c5ad52b8f605299b0d774ce97f26e3db80c2"},"author":{"id":"0xacb6c5AD52b8f605299B0d774CE97F26e3DB80c2","profile":{"username":"JSD","avatar":""}},"media":[],"views":27,"events":[],"ipfs":"QmVwmAQcMgg9rDG7ZbVgartt7TVbW1CV8TUvuVvjWRKPLR","transactionHash":"0x6c825cc669b2dd61029cbaa4250a5bd62e31ef85278df2af4c876a91dc355fd0","created":"2024-03-04T20:55:52.817Z","updated":"2024-03-06T22:34:27.995Z","images":[{"id":"QmSwA9YjQoYfxU9J8yiDVfRb8hBJWRphiKDySZeQ1xVgKz","type":"image/jpeg, image/png"}],"linkedWikis":null}