Harlan Connor
PHD Student at University of Liverpool
Epping Forest, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolHarlan Connor is a PhD student in Stochastics at the University of Liverpool with a decade of hands-on software experience and a strong foundation in mathematics. He contributes to notable open-source security tooling—helping improve Ciphey’s core decryption logic and frequency analysis for ciphers like Vigenère and Caesar—bringing practical cryptanalysis and backend refactoring skills. Previously he led and organized campus cybersecurity activities as President and Secretary of the Cyber Security Society, combining technical ability with community leadership. Based in Epping Forest, England, he pairs rigorous academic research with pragmatic code contributions, often restructuring core logic to make projects more modular and reusable. Colleagues know him for tidy engineering work and a wry GitHub bio that belies a thoughtful collection of useful utilities.
10 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Stochastics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Stochastics at University of LiverpoolForest School
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Github Skills (19)
caesar-cipher10
block-cipher10
python10
decryption10
crypt10
cryptography10
data-structure9
algorithm9
algorithms9
data-structures9
nlp8
powershell6
cpp6
cmd6
ecdsa6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
bee-san/Ciphey
May 2020 - Jun 2021
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 16 reviews, 355 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Harlan primarily worked on improving the core functionality of the `ciphey` project, particularly focusing on the decryption and analysis of various ciphers like Vigenere and Caesar. Their contributions involved refactoring code, moving core decryption logic outside of the main code, and integrating new features related to frequency analysis and key length detection. The commits also included integrating new dependencies for features like "cipheycore". They also contributed to better code organization, and moved specific components into a base repository, to increase flexibility.
pythoncyberchef-magicctffhenatural-language-processing
c3-projects/upsilon
Dec 2018 - Mar 2019
Contributions:14 releases, 129 pushes, 18 branches in 3 months
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