David Archer
Chief Technology Officer at Niobium Microsystems
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Archer is a seasoned technology leader and CTO based in Portland, Oregon, with over a decade of focused experience advancing cryptography and secure computation. He currently leads Niobium Microsystems to accelerate homomorphic encryption with hardware-aware solutions, building on long-standing R&D leadership as a Principal Investigator at Galois. His background spans both deep systems and productization—directing engineering at Intel and Mentor Graphics and teaching computer architecture and databases—giving him rare fluency from chip-level design to applied secure software. David holds advanced degrees in electrical engineering and computer science and is notable for translating academic research in data-intensive systems and secure multi-party computation into practical, high-performance products.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at Portland State UniversityMS Electrical Engineering, MS Electrical Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (9)
quality-assurance7
rack6
verification6
security5
rapid5
test-suite3
installer2
certification2
keybase1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
ge-high-assurance/RACK
Jul 2020 - Dec 2020
DARPA's Automated Rapid Certification of Software (ARCOS) project called Rapid Assurance Curation Kit (RACK)
Contributions:12 reviews, 5 commits, 1 PR in 5 months
securityrackcurationrapidverification
davearcher/sample1
Aug 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:1 branch, 2 issues in 1 day
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