Editing Ryan Lackey (section)

== Career ==
In 1999 Lackey lived in the San Francisco Bay Area before moving to the self-proclaimed state of Sealand and establishing HavenCo. In December 2002, he left HavenCo, following a dispute with other company directors and the Sealand "Royal Family".

During the US conflicts in [[Iraq]] and [[Afghanistan]], Lackey operated BlueIraq, a [[Very-small-aperture terminal|VSAT]] communications and IT company serving the [[United States Department of Defense|DoD]] and domestic markets in those countries.  BlueIraq's business model eventually became economically unfeasible due to an escalation in anti-Western violence (primarily in the form of [[improvised explosive device]]s) and troop drawdowns. BlueIraq sought [[venture capital]] to transform itself into a large general consumer cellular telephone company, but the 2008 financial crisis and the instability of Iraq and Afghanistan made fundraising impossible.

Lackey returned to the US and located in San Francisco, where he worked for a number of start-up companies before applying to [[Y Combinator (company)|Y Combinator]]. He was accepted into Y Combinator's Summer 2011 round. Lackey founded CryptoSeal,<ref name="techcrunch">{{cite news |url=https://techcrunch.com/2013/01/14/cryptoseal-offers-vpn-as-a-service-for-all-that-secure-data-you-risk-when-using-the-coffee-house-wi-fi/ |first=Alex |last=Williams |title=CryptoSeal Offers VPN As A Service For All That Secure Data You Risk When Using The Coffee House Wi-Fi |work=[[TechCrunch]] |access-date=2013-10-22 |archive-date=2013-10-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131023062937/http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/14/cryptoseal-offers-vpn-as-a-service-for-all-that-secure-data-you-risk-when-using-the-coffee-house-wi-fi/ |url-status=live }}</ref> a VPN as a service start-up with a small group of people well known in the computer security community, and secured funding from [[Ron Conway]] and a well known venture capital fund. In June 2014, CryptoSeal was acquired by [[Cloudflare]].<ref name="claoudfare">{{cite web|url=http://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-acquires-cryptoseal/ |title=CloudFlare Acquires CryptoSeal |access-date=2015-08-21 |url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150105185753/http://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-acquires-cryptoseal/ |archive-date=January 5, 2015 }}</ref>

In 2017, he began working as Chief Security Officer for the Tezos Foundation in support of the [[Tezos|Tezos blockchain]].<ref name="LinkedIn">{{cite web |title=Ryan Lackey on LinkedIn |url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanlackey/ |website=LinkedIn |access-date=3 May 2022}}{{Self-published source|reason=see WP:RSPLINKEDIN|date=December 2022}}</ref> According to his LinkedIn profile, Lackey left that position in November of 2020, and as of 2021 is employed at a crypto-related insurance company in Puerto Rico.<ref name="LinkedIn" />