Mike Bursell

Mike Bursell is a UK-based security, distributed systems, and open source architect and enthusiast who maintains the security-leaning blog Alice, Eve and Bob at https://aliceevebob.com. He is CEO and co-founder of Profian, a security company in the Confidential Computing space, based on the open source security project Enarx (https://enarx.dev).

He studied English Literature and Theology at King’s College Cambridge, where he also sang in the choir, met his wife, spent too much time playing computer games, got into online communities, played some rugby badly, read lots of books, and spent as much time as feasible punting on the River Cam. After graduating in 1994, he joined Cambridge University Press and worked on their nascent website. Subsequent jobs for a variety of global companies fostered his interests in distributed systems and security. An MBA from the Open University in 2001 expanded his horizons into the interface between engineering, systems, and the business world.