Andrew Karcher
Software Engineer at Cisco
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Karcher is a software engineer based in Raleigh, NC with eight years of hands-on experience, currently building cybersecurity automation at Cisco to validate cryptography and security against standards like FIPS and Common Criteria. He focuses on automating complex compliance workflows and helps maintain libacvp, an open-source client for the Automated Cryptographic Validation Protocol, blending practical engineering with standards-driven security. His background in IT from NC State and earlier frontline hardware/software support gives him a rare combination of customer-facing troubleshooting and deep systems-level validation expertise. Known for turning rigorous government-grade requirements into repeatable, auditable automation, he thrives on making security testing scalable and reproducible.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA, Information Technology, Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA, Information Technology at North Carolina State University
Github Skills (34)
crypto10
ssl10
decryption10
tls1310
certificate10
openssl10
cryptography10
encryption10
nist9
typescript8
unit-testing8
microsoft7
electron7
testing7
vscode-extension7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cisco/libamvp
Mar 2023 - Mar 2025
A client-side implementation of the AMVP protocol.
Contributions:2 reviews, 29 PRs, 21 pushes in 2 years
cisco/libacvp
Aug 2019 - Jan 2023
The libacvp library is a client-side implementation of the draft ACVP protocol (github.com/usnistgov/ACVP).
Contributions:19 releases, 77 reviews, 540 commits in 3 years 5 months
client-sideacvp
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