Alexander Viand
Senior Software Engineer at University of Cambridge
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Viand is a Senior Software Engineer and researcher with 12 years of experience specializing in usable security, privacy-enhancing technologies, and making advanced cryptography practical for non-experts. He has a strong academic foundation from ETH Zürich (BSc, MSc, PhD) and a track record of translating research into engineering roles, including positions at Intel Labs, UC Berkeley, and a current role at Belfort. His work focuses on secure computation techniques—Fully Homomorphic Encryption, Secure Multi-Party Computation, and Zero-Knowledge Proofs—building systems, tools, and abstractions that lower the barrier to adoption. He combines rigorous research with hands-on product engineering, having moved between academia and industry to push HE from theory toward usable software. Based in Zurich, he’s notable for bridging deep cryptographic expertise with developer-facing tooling rather than purely theoretical contributions.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Sciences (Dr. sc. ETH Zurich), Doctor of Sciences (Dr. sc. ETH Zurich) at ETH Zürich
Github Skills (49)
fhe10
compiler-design10
seal10
compiler10
palisade10
homomorphic-encryption10
python9
crypto9
cryptography9
privacy-enhancing-technologies9
encryption9
cython9
gdpr8
privacy8
matrix-multiplication8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
privateai-group1/SEAL
Dec 2019 - Jan 2020
Microsoft SEAL is an easy-to-use and powerful homomorphic encryption library.
Contributions:48 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
homomorphic-encryption
MarbleHE/Marble
Oct 2018 - Dec 2020
Contributions:5 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
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