Eric Mccorkle
Senior Computer Scientist at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Mccorkle is a Senior Computer Scientist with 13 years of industry and research experience, currently driving applied research at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. He blends deep expertise in distributed systems, programming languages, compilers, operating systems, formal methods, and cryptographic secure computing with a proven ability to convert novel research into robust, production-ready systems. His background spans finance and industry (Morgan Stanley, Oracle) as well as academic research, giving him fluency across theoretical foundations and practical engineering. Eric pursues emerging paradigms—homomorphic encryption, quantum and molecular computing—with an eye toward public-interest applications like secure elections, health data ecosystems, climate resilience, and space exploration. Comfortable tackling problems without known solutions, he combines rigorous CS theory with growing skills in physics and advanced mathematics to open new research directions. Based in Baltimore, he is a pragmatic innovator who prioritizes impactful, resilient decentralized computing.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversitySc.M, Sc.M at Brown UniversityBS, BS at Georgia TechUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst
English, German
Github Skills (54)
synchronization10
ctr10
stream-cipher10
fabric10
lock-free10
lexical-analyzer9
freebsd9
openzfs9
linux9
cryptography9
blockchain9
concurrency9
hyperledger9
rust9
data-structures9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
saltlang/saltlang
Mar 2013 - Aug 2017
Contributions:357 commits, 134 pushes, 7 branches in 4 years 6 months
emc2/freebsd-ports
Dec 2016 - Nov 2022
FreeBSD Ports Tree (Read-Only Mirror)
Contributions:1 PR, 41 pushes, 7 branches in 5 years 11 months
freebsd
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