Meet the Team
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We are a team of activists, engineers, designers, poets, artists, and dreamers. We believe that privacy is a human right. Through open-source software, strong encrpytion, and our free operating system, we're empowering people all over the world to reclaim their digital privacy.
Get to know us

Maya Ninova, Ph.D.
Techo-Anthropologist & User Researcher
I study technology and people // PhD // Researcher // Professor //
@MayaNinova
Michael Bestas
Software Engineer

Aayush Gupta
Android Developer
Working on FOSS and communities around it
@theimpulson@mastodon.social
Torsten Grote
Software Engineer
#FreeSoftware activist interested in topics of technology-enabled social and political change.
@t_grote
Tommy Webb
Software Developer
Helping solve problems, improve experience, and whittle down walls of text (usually self-created).
@tmw@ioc.exchangeAlumni
Past developers and contributors who have helped make CalyxOS what it is today.

Nicholas Merrill
Founder, Former President of the Calyx Institute
Plaintiff in Doe v. Ashcroft. Recipient of the ACLU’s Roger Baldwin Medal of Liberty and the Bill of Rights Defense Committee’s Patriot Award.
@nickcalyx
Chirayu Desai
Former CalyxOS Tech Lead
Working on Android and open source software since 2012.
@_cdesai
Oliver Scott
Software Engineer

Elijah Waxwing
Software Engineer
Surveillance, Sociology, Digital Justice, Hacking, Infosec, Cyborg Revolt.
@wxwng
Glenn Sorrentino
Product Designer, User Researcher, Front-end Engineer
Helping to build a more equitable, inclusive, and usable world.
@glennsorrentino
Hans-Christoph Steiner
Privacy Researcher & UX-focused Hacker
Working to fulfill the dream of the phone that fully respects the user and their privacy.

Luca Stefani
Software Engineer
Developer always fiddling with Android, Linux and everything in between.