Brandon Goodell
Affiliate Instructor
Littleton, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrandon Goodell is a cryptographer and mathematical researcher with a Ph.D. in Mathematical Sciences and over a decade of experience building privacy-preserving blockchain systems, post-quantum tooling, and cryptographic libraries. He has held senior roles at Geometry Labs and Insight Data Science, contributed research to Monero Research Labs, and now combines teaching as an Affiliate Instructor with independent consulting and a cryptographer role at Cypher Stack. His open-source Python packages—such as fusion-cryptography and secure-fountain—reflect a hands-on approach to turning advanced cryptographic ideas into reusable tooling. Comfortable both in deep theory and production architecture, he brings rare expertise at the intersection of rigorous math and practical blockchain engineering. Based in Littleton, Colorado, he often bridges academia and industry, mentoring students while shipping cryptographic prototypes used in real-world systems.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Mathematical Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Mathematical Sciences at Clemson UniversityBS Applied Mathematics, BS Applied Mathematics at Colorado State UniversityMasters Mathematics, Masters Mathematics at North Dakota State University
English
Github Skills (19)
security10
privacy10
monero10
cmake9
cryptography9
blockchain9
p2p9
cryptocurrency9
k-means-clustering5
coinbase-api4
api3
algorithms3
bitcoin2
finance2
trading2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
b-g-goodell/research-lab
Jun 2017 - Jul 2019
A general repo for Monero Research Lab work in progress and completed work
Contributions:68 PRs, 230 pushes, 38 branches in 2 years 1 month
monero
b-g-goodell/mrl-skunkworks
Mar 2019 - Feb 2020
Contributions:6 PRs, 119 pushes, 15 branches in 11 months
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