Kevin Lacker (born October 22, 1980) is a cryptocurrency coder and technology entrepreneur based out of Piedmont, California. He is well known for his previous role as the CTO and co-founder of Parse.

Kevin Lacker was born in Los Angeles, California in 1980, the first child of a librarian and a pediatrician. A couple years later, they moved to Cincinnati, Ohio where he spent the rest of his childhood. Lacker attended Sycamore High School in Cincinnati. ^[1]

Kevin Lacker holds a Bachelor of Science from Duke University where he double majored in Computer Science and Math. As an undergraduate student at Duke, Lacker won the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition twice. He was on the US Math Olympiad team for the International Mathematical Olympiad. Lacker also holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from University of California, Berkeley. [1]

Kevin Lacker began his career as a software engineer at Google. He spent four years at Google on their search quality team designing search algorithms from 2005-2009. [1]

From 2008-2010, Lacker was a Technical Advisor at TrailBehind, a mobile navigation app company.

In 2010, Lacker served as an advisor to the condiment company, Bacon Hot Sauce. In 2009, Lacker founded Gamador, a social network gaming company. Lacker's role involved database administrator, virality analytics, animation, and Facebook API integration. Gamador received investment from Y Combinator in their Winter 2010 batch.

In 2011, Lacker co-founded Parse, a mobile backend as a service company which develops backend tools for mobile developers. He also served as the company's Chief Technology Officer In 2013, the firm was acquired by Facebook for around $85 million. Lacker then worked at Facebook until June 2017.

After leaving Facebook, Lacker has focused on coding cryptocurrency applications. In 2018, he developed Coinkit, a custom blockchain protocol on which you can own and transfer cryptocurrency. Coinkit's consensus mechanism is based on the Stellar Consensus Protocol.