Austin was in the Army on 9/11, served in Afghanistan, and defended the US and allies in his 12-year career as an analyst and IT professional in the US Intelligence Community before returning to education and earning bachelor’s degrees in physics and philosophy a few years ago. Getting a taste for applied quantum information science at his USEQIP internship at the Univ of Waterloo’s IQC, he now focuses his passion for quantum mechanics and information technology on Qrypt’s mission to create Everlasting Encryption to protect digital information in this post-quantum age.