Dan Draper
CEO And Founder at CipherStash
Sydney, New South Wales, United States
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Top SchoolDan Draper is a founder and CEO with 11+ years of hands-on engineering and leadership experience building and scaling developer teams and startups, currently leading CipherStash to commercialize searchable encryption that keeps data encrypted-in-use. He blends deep technical chops (cryptography enthusiast and Rust zealot) with product and go-to-market experience from multiple ventures including NetFox, Codefire, and Expert360. Dan has a track record of translating complex security and data challenges into practical, auditable products and developer-friendly integrations like drop-in drivers and SDKs. He’s also an experienced educator and storyteller—co-founding Codr.TV and serving as Executive Producer for Debugging Diversity—championing broader representation in tech. Notably, his background spans engineering, entrepreneurship and even TV presenting training, giving him an uncommon mix of technical credibility and communication skill.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
3rd Degree Black Belt, 3rd Degree Black Belt at World TaekwondoCertificate Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, Certificate Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at Growing Global CompaniesBE Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BE Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of AdelaideCertificate Global Entrepreneurship Accelerator Program, Certificate Global Entrepreneurship Accelerator Program at University of DeustoCertificate in Television Presenting Skills, Certificate in Television Presenting Skills at National Institute of Dramatic ArtInternational Baccaleurate High School Education, International Baccaleurate High School Education at Glenunga International
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Github Skills (86)
parser10
lexer10
extensible10
sql10
sql-parser10
searchable10
big-data9
rust9
security9
encryption9
envelope9
dynamodb8
javascript8
activeadmin8
ruby8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
cipherstash/envelopers
May 2022 - Mar 2025
Very simple envelope encryption library
Contributions:1 release, 29 reviews, 9 PRs in 2 years 9 months
envelope-encryptioncryptographyrustfurryaws-kms
coderdan/elmdb
Aug 2018 - Mar 2021
Erlang NIF driver for LMDB, a fast, compact and transactional key-value data store
Contributions:4 PRs, 2 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 7 months
lmdbniferlangcompactnosql
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