Eric Swanson
CTO at Zinc Technologies Inc.
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Swanson is a seasoned technology leader and current CTO based in Cincinnati with 15 years of software engineering experience building reliable systems for both startups and large products. He led backend and infrastructure efforts at Dropbox shipping a Python desktop client to hundreds of millions of users and now runs the engineering direction of Zinc Technologies, an e‑commerce plumbing company. His hands‑on background spans C, C++, Python and systems work, with early embedded and camera-system experience from L‑3 and commercial/military software at NLign. An active contributor to low-level crypto tooling, he added OpenSSL BigNumber and RSA key handling improvements to a GPU-based onion hash generator, demonstrating deep comfort with cryptography and native extensions. He pairs pragmatic shipping experience from an arbitrage startup with leadership in product-focused engineering, and unusually blends electrical engineering training with broad full‑stack systems competence.
15 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Electrical Engineering, BS, Electrical Engineering at University of CincinnatiIndian Hill High School
Github Skills (10)
bignumbers10
csharp10
openssl10
rsa10
bignumber10
dotnet-core10
bignum10
pg9
gnupg9
hash7
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
lachesis/scallion
Oct 2012 - Nov 2020
GPU-based Onion Hash generator
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 170 commits, 11 PRs in 8 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Eric's commits primarily focus on integrating OpenSSL libraries into the project, specifically for generating and manipulating RSA keys. Their contributions include adding native functions for BigNumber operations, implementing code for key verification, and creating code for generating and converting the DER. They wrote the exponent-twiddling code, which is a core component for the project.
gpuhash-generatoronionhash
bninja/pika-pool
Feb 2016 - Feb 2023
pools for your pikas
Contributions:3 PRs, 1 comment, 1 issue in 7 years
pools
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