Paul Frazee
Paul Frazee is Chief Technology Officer and a founding engineer at Bluesky where he co-designed the AT Protocol. He's enthusiastically participated in the DWeb camps and summits since the beginning, and credits much of his career to the connections he made there.
Sessions
Before Bluesky became one of the fastest-growing decentralized social platforms, Paul Frazee spent years working on technologies that never became household names—but profoundly influenced today's decentralized web. This conversation traces that journey: the optimism of the early P2P movement, the rise of blockchains and federation, the lessons of Beaker Browser, and the creation of the AT Protocol. Along the way, Paul reflects on the tension between idealism and pragmatism, why protocols must ultimately serve people—not just principles—and what it takes to grow open infrastructure from thousands of enthusiasts to millions of users.
Returning to DWeb Camp for this intimate fireside chat, Paul offers us a rare look inside one of the architects helping define the future of online public infrastructure.
Bluesky CTO Paul Frazee on why building an open social network meant designing for scale from day one — and what the Atmosphere's bet on open computing looks like ten years after the first Decentralized Web Summit.
10 years ago, the Internet Archive convened the first Decentralized Web Summit in San Francisco 2016. Now, we've invited five of the original Builders to look back & look forward with us:
What have we learned? How has the early promise of decentralization panned out? Where to go from here?