Aidan Woods
Staff Software Developer (Security) at 1Password
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAidan Woods is a Staff Software Developer specializing in security with a decade of hands-on experience securing backend systems and cryptographic libraries. Currently at 1Password, he progressed through engineering tiers since 2022, applying practical security expertise earned from multiple roles testing and hardening enterprise systems at Sainsbury’s. He is an active open-source contributor on notable projects—helping fortify paragonie/paseto (platform-agnostic security tokens) and improving crypto bindings in swift-sodium—demonstrating focus on correct key handling, protocol interfaces, and performant refactors. A mathematician by training from the University of Surrey, he brings analytical rigor to protocol design and defensive coding. Colleagues rely on him for thoughtful refactors that reduce risk while improving maintainability, and he often surfaces subtle ordering, nonce, and state-management issues before they reach production.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics, Mathematics at University of Surrey
Github Skills (29)
parserator10
markdown10
parser10
lib10
it-security10
security10
php10
markdown-it10
parse10
cryptography10
libsodium10
state-management10
swift10
communication-protocol10
protocols10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
erusev/parsedown
Sep 2016 - May 2022
Better Markdown Parser in PHP
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 3 reviews, 554 commits in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Aidan primarily worked on improving the `parsedown` library, a Markdown parser for PHP. Their contributions involved adding functionality to specify attributes for ordered lists, and extending the line handler to prevent specified element nesting. The user also made various improvements to the code, including readability and performance optimizations. Additionally, they fixed a bug related to preventing double nested links and implemented CommonMark compliance.
commonmarkphpmarkdown-parserbbcodemarkdown-it
erusev/parsedown-extra
Jun 2017 - May 2022
Markdown Extra Extension for Parsedown
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 45 commits, 13 PRs in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Aidan primarily worked on the ParsedownExtra library, focusing on enhancing its functionality. Their contributions involved updating compatibility with newer Parsedown versions, modifying code related to definition lists, footnotes, and abbreviations. Additionally, the user addressed bug fixes and improved the codebase by optimizing the application logic, and utilizing new code patterns.
markdown-extrasummernoteextensiblemarkdownparsedown
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