Dave Rodgman
Director Of Engineering at Arm
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDave Rodgman is a seasoned engineering leader with nine years of documented experience and a two-decade-long technical career at Arm, currently serving as Director of Engineering for Fast Models and system IP validation. He combines hands-on systems and security expertise—contributing to open-source cryptography projects like Mbed TLS, where he implemented low-level, PSA cryptography API support and vulnerability fixes—with leadership in performance optimisation for Chromium. Dave’s background spans research (PhD in Volume Graphics), deep systems programming, and driving cross-functional teams to deliver pre-silicon models and secure libraries. Colleagues know him for bridging rigorous academic thinking with pragmatic engineering, and for quietly improving critical open-source crypto infrastructure relied upon by many downstream projects.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Volume Graphics, Ph.D. Volume Graphics at Swansea UniversityChew Valley School Bristol
Github Skills (12)
crypt10
crypto10
c1710
it-security10
ss10
sslv310
ssl10
c1110
cryptography10
security10
ps9
hash-algorithm8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Mbed-TLS/mbedtls
Aug 2020 - Jan 2023
An open source, portable, easy to use, readable and flexible TLS library, and reference implementation of the PSA Cryptography API. Releases are on a varying cadence, typically around 3 - 6 months between releases.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 releases, 1288 reviews, 641 commits in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Dave primarily contributed to the Mbed TLS library by implementing and refining security-related functionalities. Their work included adding support for new features, fixing vulnerabilities, and ensuring the library adhered to coding standards. They also made improvements related to the PSA cryptography API, and general enhancements to the core of the library. The contributions involved direct manipulation of low-level system calls, indicating expertise in systems programming.
cryptography-libraryapisslcryptographycryptography-api
daverodgman/mbedtls
Aug 2020 - Oct 2024
An open source, portable, easy to use, readable and flexible SSL library
Contributions:6 PRs, 951 pushes, 354 branches in 4 years 3 months
xmakesslpe-filereadableperl5
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