Christopher Allen
Founder, Executive Director, Principal Architect at Alacrity Management
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolChristopher Allen is a founder and principal architect specializing in decentralized digital trust, cryptography, and human-rights–centric identity systems, with more than a decade of focused experience leading standards and implementations. He co-authored the IETF TLS standard and helped shape W3C Decentralized Identifiers and Verifiable Credentials, advising governments, startups, and industry on secure, interoperable identity and custody solutions. As founder of Blockchain Commons and Rebooting the Web of Trust, he combines open-source development, workshop-driven standards formation, and a defensive patent strategy to advance resilient digital-asset custody and social key-recovery techniques. His background spans entrepreneurial exits and senior roles at Blockstream, Certicom, and Blackphone, bridging deep protocol expertise with practical product and policy impact. Based in Berkeley, he’s known not only for technical leadership but for cultivating collaborative ecosystems—his workshops and salons have quietly steered a decade of decentralized identity progress.
11 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (200)
padding10
cryptocurrency10
chat10
specification10
command-line-tool10
prose10
identifier10
seed10
blockchain-platform10
administration10
cryptography10
command-line10
catalina10
pinterest10
payment10
Programming languages (30)
Github contributions (5)
BlockchainCommons/secp256k1-schnorrsig
May 2018 - Feb 2022
Optimized C library for EC operations on curve secp256k1
Contributions:6 PRs, 6 pushes, 7 comments in 3 years 9 months
adazcashc-librarysecp256k1curve
DyversHands/www.DyversHands.com
Dec 2018 - Oct 2024
Contributions:517 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 11 months
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