Alexandre Pauwels
PHD Candidate
Lisbon, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexandre Pauwels is a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge specializing in privacy-enhancing technologies and applied cryptography, with a decade of hands-on experience building deployable systems. He blends academic research with entrepreneurship as founder of Pauwels Labs and prior founder of infrastructure-focused startups like BitMantle and redact.ws, tackling real-world data liability and cost-efficiency challenges. His background includes engineering and architecture roles at IBM and InBlock, where he worked on blockchain, context-aware systems, and infrastructure design. Comfortable across research, consulting, and product delivery, he focuses on making advanced privacy tools practical for production environments. Based in Lisbon, he leverages dual training in computer science and robotics to approach security and systems problems with a cross-disciplinary, implementation-first mindset. An uncommon detail: he intentionally builds startups around operational constraints (legal exposure, infra cost) rather than purely technical novelty, signaling a pragmatic founder-researcher profile.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (194)
proxies10
warp10
jenkins-x10
openid10
ecr10
der10
plugin10
secured10
iframe10
server10
service-mesh9
pem9
golang9
rust9
identity9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
pauwels-labs/flux-infra
Sep 2022 - Jul 2024
Contributions:1039 pushes in 1 year 10 months
pauwels-labs/redact-client
Apr 2020 - Dec 2021
Receives incoming requests from the browser and serves up decrypted contents in a secured iframe in response.
Contributions:34 reviews, 199 commits, 24 PRs in 1 year 7 months
browseriframesecuredjavascriptincoming
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