Brent Zundel
Standards Architect at W3C
American Fork, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolBrent Zundel is a standards-focused architect and cryptography engineer with eight years of professional experience designing secure, privacy-preserving digital identity systems. He co-chairs the W3C Verifiable Credentials Working Group and serves on the W3C advisory board, shaping open standards used across decentralized identity ecosystems. Brent has hands-on backend experience contributing to high-profile open-source projects like Hyperledger Ursa, Aries RFCs, and Indy Node, where he improved cryptographic flows, RFC testing, and ledger transaction handling. He blends rigorous engineering—refactoring migrations, tightening validation, and implementing proof-specific blinding—with product and standards leadership roles at companies such as Yubico, Evernym, and Avast. Based in American Fork, Utah, he pairs a Master’s in Computer Science with a background in English, and outside work he’s as proud of solving hard technical problems as he is of making a mean pie. Colleagues rely on him for both meticulous specification work and pragmatic, learn-anything execution.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Full Stack Web Development Certification Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Development Certification Computer Software Engineering at Free Code CampMaster of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at California State University, FresnoBachelor of Arts (BA) English, Bachelor of Arts (BA) English at Western Michigan University
German
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Github Skills (24)
back-end-development10
python10
testing10
distributed-ledger-technology10
signature-verification10
aries10
distributed-ledger10
cryptography10
blockchain10
rust10
backend10
data-structure9
algorithms9
security9
documentation9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
hyperledger-archives/ursa
Apr 2020 - Jan 2023
Hyperledger Ursa (a shared cryptographic library) has moved to end-of-life status, with the components of Ursa still in use moved to their relevant Hyperledger projects (AnonCreds, Indy, Aries and Iroha).
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:40 reviews, 27 commits, 27 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Brent made significant contributions to the `ursa` repository, focusing on cryptographic library functionality. They implemented and modified credential flow objects, adding new features like revealed messages and proof-specific blinding. These changes involved modifications to core library files and the addition of functions like `create_challenge_hash`. The user also clarified function names and comments, improving code readability.
cryptographyhyperledgercryptography-libraryssiblockchain
hyperledger/indy-node
Dec 2017 - Jul 2020
The server portion of a distributed ledger purpose-built for decentralized identity.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 113 commits, 10 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Brent primarily contributed to the backend of the `indy-node` repository, a distributed ledger for decentralized identity. Their contributions involved significant code changes in Python, including refactoring and enhancing existing migration scripts for the ledger database, enhancing the validation of context data, and refactoring the domain request handlers, which handle ledger transactions. These changes likely involved improvements to data structures and algorithms to allow the system to process transactions better and improve efficiency.
blockchaindecentralizeddecentralized-identitydistributed-ledgerpurpose
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