Andrei Lapets
Chief Technology Officer at Various early-stage technology companies
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolAndrei Lapets is a technology leader and scholar who blends deep research with strategic product leadership across academia and industry. He is currently CTO at Nillion Labs and Co-Founder/Chief Science Officer at Choose K, advancing privacy-enhancing technologies such as multi-party computation and homomorphic encryption for Web3 and finance applications. Formerly, he founded and directed Boston University’s Software & Application Innovation Lab and served as Associate Professor of the Practice in Computer Science, guiding interdisciplinary work in cybersecurity, formal methods, usability, and data science. He chairs the MPC Alliance's Technical Committee and acts as an advisor to early-stage tech companies, reflecting a commitment to shaping privacy-preserving technologies at scale. Based in Boston, he holds a PhD from Boston University and degrees from Harvard University, underscoring a strong mix of academic depth and practical impact.
16 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Boston Latin SchoolBachelor's Degree, Bachelor's Degree at Harvard UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) at Boston University
Github Skills (171)
spaces10
modular-arithmetic10
asymmetric10
computational-biology10
computation10
cybersecurity10
elliptic-curve-cryptography10
genetic10
sodium10
modulo10
python-cryptography10
iteration10
modulus10
circuit10
multiparty10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
reity/symbolism
Mar 2021 - Jul 2022
Extensible combinator library for building symbolic Python expressions that are compatible with serialization and can be evaluated at a later time.
Contributions:31 commits, 3 PRs, 14 pushes in 1 year 4 months
python-librarypythonsymbolic-expressionssymbolic-manipulationserialization
lapets/mr4mp
Jan 2018 - Aug 2022
Thin MapReduce-like layer that wraps the Python multiprocessing library.
Contributions:74 commits, 2 PRs, 48 pushes in 4 years 7 months
python-librarypythonpython-multiprocessingwrapspython-bindings
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