Alain Meier
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorAlain Meier is a seasoned software leader focused on identity, fraud prevention, and compliance. Over the past decade he built and led risk platforms at Cognito, a full-stack identity verification startup acquired by Plaid in 2022, and since then has steered Plaid's onboarding safety efforts as Head of Fraud & Identity. Earlier in his career he co-founded Bloom Protocol, exploring decentralized identity and credit scoring, and contributed to Bitcoin research at Stanford, broadening his perspective on secure digital identity. Based in San Francisco, he blends hands-on engineering with strategic product leadership across startups and scale-ups. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Stanford and has a track record of turning complex risk challenges into auditable, production-grade systems.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (120)
yum10
dashboard10
postgresql10
postgres10
iso316610
ruby-client10
iso-316610
clojure10
metabase10
sql10
data-visualization10
database10
mysql10
analytics10
slack10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
alainmeier/cryptonote
May 2013 - May 2020
:lock: A simple open source web application that lets users encrypt and share messages that can only be read once.
Contributions:139 commits, 15 PRs, 29 pushes in 7 years 1 month
lockjavascriptweb-applicationencryptionencrypt
BlockScore/blockscore-php
Mar 2014 - Mar 2016
:elephant: An API wrapper for BlockScore using PHP.
Contributions:2 releases, 24 commits, 9 PRs in 2 years
apiapi-wrapperphpelephantblockscore
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