Brian Thorne
Principal Software Engineer at Hardbyte
Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
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Top SchoolBrian Thorne is a Principal Software Engineer and veteran founder with 15 years of experience building privacy-conscious, production-grade systems and leading engineering teams from startup MVPs to secure enterprise deployments. Based in Christchurch, New Zealand, he blends hands-on backend and DevOps expertise with applied cryptography and machine learning—work that includes contributions to the python-paillier homomorphic encryption library and leading Confidential Computing at CSIRO Data61. He has founded and led multiple ventures (Hardbyte, Virtual SAR) and served as CTO at Huey Books, demonstrating a knack for translating research-grade algorithms into real-world products for automotive and analytics domains. Brian is especially strong at designing distributed, privacy-preserving analytics and getting systems through rigorous security and compliance processes. Colleagues know him as curious and optimistic—an engineer who pairs technical depth with an entrepreneurial drive to ship valuable, user-focused solutions.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Engineering, Mechatronics, Engineering, Mechatronics at University of Canterbury
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Github Skills (11)
python10
cryptography10
homomorphic-encryption10
cicd9
documentation9
testing9
ssms9
sql9
command-line-interface9
setuptools8
tsql6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
data61/python-paillier
Nov 2014 - Apr 2022
A library for Partially Homomorphic Encryption in Python
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:4 releases, 5 reviews, 151 commits in 7 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Brian contributed to the improvement and maintenance of the Python Paillier library. Their contributions included mocking modules for documentation, adding instructions for binary dependency installations to the documentation, updating setup files for pypi releases, and removing benchmarks. They added a regression test for key uniqueness and implemented changes to support python2. The user also updated the cli tool.
cryptographypythonpaillierhomomorphic-encryptionencryption
hardbyte/netchecks
Nov 2022 - Mar 2025
Tool to validate assumptions about the network
Contributions:19 releases, 42 reviews, 100 PRs in 2 years 4 months
cloud-nativekubernetes-operatornetwork-monitoringnetwork-securitysecurity
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