Uber’s founding engineer joins Co Waterford start-up

Conrad Whelan is to lead the engineering efforts at Nillion, a company co-founded by entrepreneur Rob Leslie

Conrad Whelan: leading the engineering efforts at Nillion, which he described as being in ‘rapid build mode’

A Co Waterford-headquartered start-up has pulled off a coup by securing one of Uber’s earliest employees as its founding chief technology officer.

Conrad Whelan has announced he is joining Nillion, a company that has developed a novel cryptographic protocol known as Nil Message Compute (NMC), which offers a new way of approaching decentralised computation and processing that could be the foundation of new web3 or collaborative applications.

Whelan was one of the first five employees ...