Chris Conlon
Engineering Manager at wolfSSL
Bozeman, Montana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Conlon is an experienced engineering manager with 14 years building and securing lightweight TLS/SSL and cryptographic libraries for embedded and IoT devices, currently leading engineering at wolfSSL from Bozeman, Montana. He progressed from hands-on security and backend engineering—remediating vulnerabilities, adding FIPS-related features, and integrating TLS 1.3/DTLS support—to managing the Bozeman office and guiding product and team growth. An active open-source contributor, Chris has authored examples and platform integrations (including Android NDK samples) and improved MQTT and wolfSSL internals for wide compiler and build compatibility. He combines deep embedded security expertise with practical developer advocacy, having presented on securing connected devices and cryptography at multiple industry conferences. Notably, his work spans both low-level cryptographic functionality and pragmatic sample apps that help accelerate secure adoption in constrained environments.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Montana State University-Bozeman
English
Github Skills (29)
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tls1210
c1110
tls1310
mqttnet10
security10
c1710
mtls10
iot10
x50910
sys10
cryptography10
libtls10
dtls10
embedded10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
wolfSSL/wolfssl-examples
Jun 2014 - Nov 2022
Example applications using the wolfSSL lightweight SSL/TLS library
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:17 reviews, 84 commits, 53 PRs in 8 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Chris contributed initial examples demonstrating the use of the wolfSSL lightweight SSL/TLS library. These examples involved implementing DTLS, PSK, and TLS functionalities within the repository, incorporating non-blocking I/O techniques for server-side operations. The user also added an Android NDK sample, demonstrating integration with the wolfSSL library in an Android environment and a simple certificate management example. Furthermore, the user updated the Android NDK sample app and added various CMS (Cryptographic Message Syntax) examples.
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wolfSSL/wolfssl
Feb 2015 - Dec 2022
The wolfSSL library is a small, fast, portable implementation of TLS/SSL for embedded devices to the cloud. wolfSSL supports up to TLS 1.3 and DTLS 1.3!
Role in this project:Back-end & Security Engineer
Back-end & Security EngineerContributions:1 release, 470 reviews, 738 commits in 7 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Chris focused on enhancing the wolfSSL library's security and functionality. They primarily addressed security vulnerabilities, corrected code copyright issues, fixed and improved the modular nature of existing code functions, and added functionality such as CMS signed-encrypted and -compressed data handling. They also made improvements and added functionality for FIPS and related requirements.
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