Michael Toutonghi, Lead Developer of the Verus Protocol, is a former Corporate Vice President and founder of the eHome division at Microsoft, former Technical Fellow and Chief Architect of Microsoft's Advertising Platform, and the recognized founder and architect of Microsoft's .NET platform. He is the former CTO of Parallels Corporation and an experienced distributed computing and machine learning architect with over 40 years of experience in software and nano-technology combined. Since 2018, Toutonghi has been a co-founder, inventor, lead developer, and designer of the Verus Protocol. The Verus Protocol is a fully decentralized, multi-currency, multi-blockchain, unlimited-scale permissionless public network featuring a novel application model with inherent data encryption services and the world's only multi-currency, simultaneous-solve, MEV-resistant DeFi protocol. Verus is also the first complete blockchain protocol to offer revocable, recoverable, multisig data-capable, rent-free identities with privacy-preserving age verification technology. As part of Toutonghi's design, all Public Blockchains as a Service (PBaaS) chains, identities, and currencies launched from the Verus PBaaS network are interoperable and provably bridged by consensus to each other and the Ethereum network as currencies and NFTs. Numerous applications, including social networks, fiat on and off ramps, age verification systems, medical records projects, and a variety of games are in active developement, targeting the Verus PBaaS protocol.