Andrei Lapets
Chief Technology Officer at Reity LLC
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolAndrei Lapets is a technology leader and academic with 16 years of experience bridging formal methods, applied cryptography, and software engineering to turn advanced research into production-grade systems. Currently CTO at Nillion and Chief Science Officer at Choose K, he specializes in privacy-enhancing technologies like secure multi-party computation and homomorphic encryption for Web3, finance, and advertising ecosystems. He founded and directed Boston University's Software & Application Innovation Lab and led research development at the Hariri Institute, combining hands-on engineering with interdisciplinary program building and student mentorship. Andrei has guided the integration of PETs at scale—most recently bringing those capabilities into commercial products at Magnite and multiple startups—and continues to advise early-stage companies and consortia such as the MPC Alliance. His profile blends rigorous academic training (PhD, Harvard/BU) with practical outcomes: deploying novel cryptographic techniques in production and shaping industry standards across privacy-sensitive domains.
16 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Boston Latin SchoolMaster’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at Harvard UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at Boston University
Github Skills (154)
modular-arithmetic10
asymmetric10
computational-biology10
computation10
cybersecurity10
elliptic-curve-cryptography10
genetic10
sodium10
modulo10
python-cryptography10
iteration10
modulus10
circuit10
multiparty10
mpc10
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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