Drummond Reed
Director at The First Person Project
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolDrummond Reed is a veteran identity and decentralized trust architect who has led standards, governance, and product efforts across startups, foundations, and enterprise teams for over a decade. Currently directing the First Person Network and co-organizing the First Person Project, he drives implementation of LF Decentralized Trust and ToIP standards to enable interoperable self-sovereign identity at scale. He co-edited the W3C DID 1.0 spec, co-chairs multiple ToIP working groups, and has a track record founding and leading initiatives such as Respect Network, Open Identity Exchange, and the Information Card Foundation. Known for bridging technical specification work with real-world trust services, he pairs protocol design with partnerships and operational leadership (previously as Chief Trust Officer at Evernym and Director of Trust Services at Gen and Avast). His background in psychology and humanities from Harvard informs a human-centered approach to identity and data sharing that goes beyond purely technical solutions. Based in Seattle, he combines standard-setting influence with hands-on productization of decentralized identity infrastructure.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Charles Wright AcademyPsychology, English, Film, Psychology, English, Film at Harvard University
Github Skills (80)
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specification10
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hyperledger-fabric10
w3c10
spec10
tla10
blockchain-network10
indy9
credentials9
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
talltree/did-core
Oct 2019 - Jun 2021
W3C Decentralized Identifier Specification v1.0
Contributions:47 pushes, 12 branches in 1 year 8 months
decentralized-identifiersjsonldv1-0specificationtla
talltree/aries-rfcs
Nov 2019 - Jun 2020
Hyperledger Aries is infrastructure for blockchain-rooted, peer-to-peer interactions
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
hyperledgerconsensusblockchaininfrastructurearies
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