Gordon Speirs
Chief Executive Officer at Cryptisk
East Kilbride, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolGordon Speirs is an experienced software leader and CEO with 11 years in engineering and executive roles, currently running an IR35 contracting firm in East Kilbride. He has led teams through ground-up designs of security-focused systems, notably architecting a post-quantum distributed authentication protocol (OISP) and performance-tuned cryptographic implementations across C++, .NET, and ARM64 hardware. His background spans high-performance C++ data-acquisition, cloud automation, and financial systems migration to modern .NET Core architectures, alongside hands-on work in device drivers and CI/CD from scratch. Gordon combines technical depth with process rigor—instigating ISO 9001-compliant change control, secure code practices, and peer review culture—while mentoring engineers across disciplines. Notably, he has delivered both low-latency game-server research and production-grade cryptography, demonstrating rare breadth from FPGA drivers to post-quantum crypto design.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
HND, Software Development, AA, HND, Software Development, AA at Glasgow Clyde College
English, Swedish
Github Skills (77)
monodevelop9
luks9
allocation9
installer9
archlinux8
ide8
arch8
java8
json8
serializer8
dotnet7
cil7
sql7
decision-making7
database7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Cryptisk/Utf8Json
Dec 2020 - Jun 2021
Definitely Fastest and Zero Allocation JSON Serializer for C#(NET, .NET Core, Unity, Xamarin).
Contributions:4 releases, 2 reviews, 64 commits in 6 months
dotnetzerozero-allocationserializationallocation
gordrs/thc-secure-delete
Aug 2015 - Aug 2019
THC's Secure Delete tools
Contributions:1 PR, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
securesecuritycryptographythc
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