Colin Roberts
Scientific Software Architect at Xcimer Energy Corporation
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolColin Roberts is a Scientific Software Architect and former CTO with a PhD in Mathematics, combining a decade of research and engineering to build provably secure cryptographic systems, multi-agent simulations, and low-latency privacy-preserving protocols. He has led teams to productionize Zero-Knowledge and MPC-based attestations that run on mobile and browser environments, and founded Multifactor to integrate foundational cryptography into user-facing agentic security. His background in applied topology and sheaf-based Topological Data Analysis informs work across robotics, autonomous coordination, and resilient distributed networks—skills honed at NASA and in climate/epidemic modeling. Comfortable bridging deep theory and pragmatic engineering, he’s known for shipping audited Rust tooling and decentralized smart-contract systems while mentoring teams to tackle hard, high-impact problems.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mathematics at Colorado State UniversityHigh School Diploma, N/A, High School Diploma, N/A at San Marino High School
Github Skills (120)
regression10
smart-contracts10
stochastic-processes10
rust10
mathematics10
simulation-framework10
ethereum10
blockchain10
solidity9
portable9
statistics9
quantlib9
trading9
testing9
tooling9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
pluto/ronkathon
May 2024 - Mar 2025
Cryptography Educational Foundations
Contributions:90 reviews, 55 PRs, 129 pushes in 10 months
cryptographymathematicsrustlangzero-knowledge
pluto/web-prover-circuits
Oct 2024 - Feb 2025
Circuits for Pluto's `web-prover`
Contributions:43 reviews, 53 PRs, 193 pushes in 3 months
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