Christian Paquin
Principal Research Engineer at Microsoft
Reston, Virginia, United States
Summary
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RockstarChristian Paquin is a Principal Research Engineer at Microsoft with a decade of experience specializing in cryptography, information security, and identity and access management. He designs and implements security architectures and privacy-enhancing technologies, with deep hands-on expertise in PKI and electronic signatures. Christian contributes to open-source post-quantum efforts—helping make the widely used liboqs library build and run on Windows by addressing randomness, key exchange, and memory concerns—bringing research-grade crypto into practical developer environments. Based in Reston, VA, he blends software engineering rigor with a researcher’s attention to protocol and implementation detail. Colleagues rely on him to translate cutting-edge cryptographic primitives into secure, auditable production systems.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (11)
ws-api10
winapi10
c-programming10
wp-api10
cryptography9
crypto9
algorithm9
crypt9
memory-management7
cross-platform6
multiplatform6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
open-quantum-safe/liboqs
Sep 2016 - Jul 2022
C library for prototyping and experimenting with quantum-resistant cryptography
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Cryptography Implementer
Back-end Developer & Cryptography ImplementerContributions:12 reviews, 301 commits, 153 PRs in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Christian's contributions focused on enabling the Windows build environment for the "liboqs" library, a C library for experimenting with quantum-resistant cryptography. The user modified several files, including those related to random number generation and key exchange algorithms, to incorporate Windows-specific API calls and build directives. Furthermore, the user addressed code formatting and memory allocation issues related to Windows compatibility.
c-librarycryptographykey-exchange-algorithmslattice-based-cryptopost-quantum-cryptography
microsoft/uprove-node-reference
Nov 2022 - Mar 2023
U-Prove reference implementation in TypeScript (node)
Contributions:2 reviews, 39 commits, 24 PRs in 4 months
typescript
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