Steve Weis is a software engineer at Facebook, where he most recently helped release support for PGP. Previously, Steve was co-founder & CTO of PrivateCore, a security startup acquired by Facebook in 2014. In the past, Steve was a technical director at AppDirect and a member of the applied security group at Google.

While at Google, Steve created Google 2-step verification and the Keyczar cryptographic library. Steve received a PhD in computer science from MIT where he was advised by Ron Rivest. Steve's interests include cryptography, security, theoretical computer science, and entrepreneurship.