Gordon Speirs
Chief Executive Officer at Cryptisk
East Kilbride, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorGordon Speirs is a seasoned technology leader and entrepreneur who serves as Chief Executive Officer of Cryptisk, an IR35 contracting firm, guiding strategy and delivery of secure software solutions. With over a decade of experience spanning fintech, security, and systems engineering, he has built and led engineering teams from scratch, including the OISP V6 project and a post-quantum distributed authentication protocol with PQRelays. At Iothic Ltd., he led a dozen engineers, architected high-performance cryptography components (SHA3-256 and NTRU KEM), led the design of Iothic HUB provisioning platform, and established CI/CD pipelines with ISO 9001 change management. In prior roles at Tindeco Financial Services and iomart, he drove cloud migrations, authentication microservices, data warehousing, and private cloud provisioning automation. Earlier leadership positions included Managing Director and Software Technical Director at Loch Industries and CTO at Crosshair Games, reflecting a track record of shipping high-performance C++ systems and distributed infrastructure for demanding environments. Based in East Kilbride, Scotland, Gordon pairs entrepreneurial ambition with hands-on engineering excellence to deliver secure, scalable systems and develop high-performing teams.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
English, Swedish
Github Skills (84)
monodevelop9
luks9
arch-linux9
allocation9
installer9
archlinux8
ide8
arch8
java8
json8
serializer8
dotnet7
cil7
sql7
decision-making7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Cryptisk/Utf8Json
Dec 2020 - Jun 2021
Definitely Fastest and Zero Allocation JSON Serializer for C#(NET, .NET Core, Unity, Xamarin).
Contributions:4 releases, 2 reviews, 64 commits in 6 months
dotnetzerozero-allocationserializationallocation
gordrs/thc-secure-delete
Aug 2015 - Aug 2019
THC's Secure Delete tools
Contributions:1 PR, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
securesecuritycryptographythc
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