Billy Gray
Senior Developer at Zetetic
Newark, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBilly Gray is a Senior Developer based in Newark, New Jersey with 18 years of hands-on experience building secure, production-grade software. At Zetetic since 2006 he has focused on backend and systems work, bringing deep expertise in database security and encryption. His notable open-source contributions to SQLCipher include core changes to key derivation, salt integration, and migration paths—work that reflects practical cryptographic understanding applied to a widely used encrypted SQLite fork. Colleagues rely on him for thoughtful, low-level improvements that balance security, compatibility, and maintainability. He began his professional career as a systems developer at Montclair State University, and continues to blend applied research instincts with pragmatic engineering.
17 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Montclair State University
Stackoverflow
1,747reputation
223kreached
15answers
10questions
sqlite
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Github Skills (15)
c1710
sqlcipher10
c1110
encryption10
cryptography10
database-security9
sqlite9
objective-c6
portable-database6
ios6
checksum6
iphone6
firebird6
cocoa6
security6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
sqlcipher/sqlcipher
May 2011 - Apr 2016
SQLCipher is a standalone fork of SQLite that adds 256 bit AES encryption of database files and other security features.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Security Engineer
Back-end Developer / Security EngineerContributions:58 commits, 1 push, 8 comments in 5 years
Contributions summary:Billy primarily focused on modifying the core encryption implementation of the SQLCipher project. Their contributions included changes related to key derivation, particularly enhancing the handling of keyspecs and integrating salt into the process. They also addressed migration issues and upgraded the codebase for new encryption methods. The user's work demonstrates an understanding of cryptographic principles, database security, and the practical application of these concepts within the SQLCipher framework.
aesaes-encryptiondatabase-filessqlsecurity
zeteticllc/dropbox-sdk-obj-c
Feb 2017 - Feb 2022
Official Objective-C SDK for the Dropbox API v2.
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes in 5 years 1 month
dropboxobjective-capidropbox-sdksdk
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