Harold Booth
Supervisory Computer Scientist at NIST
Bethesda, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHarold Booth is a Supervisory Computer Scientist with over a decade of experience modernizing national-scale cybersecurity and research programs at NIST. He led the design and delivery of Dioptra, an AI/ML testing platform, and has driven major modernizations of the National Vulnerability Database and cryptographic validation services. Technically versatile, he codes across C/C++, Java, Python, Rust, and JavaScript, and has migrated critical infrastructure (e.g., a C++ beacon engine to Rust) while building REST APIs, containerized services, and ML experiment tracking. His work blends hands-on engineering, product ownership, and policy-facing research—co-authoring NIST guidance on secure development for generative AI. Based in Bethesda, he pairs an MS in Computer Science with deep operational experience in PKI, cryptography, and security automation. A persistent pragmatist, he focuses on measurable improvements to security, scalability, and reproducibility in complex government systems.
10 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Computer Science, Master of Science, Computer Science at Illinois Institute of TechnologyBS, Chemical Engineering, BS, Chemical Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (36)
nist10
validation10
security10
cryptography10
encryption10
lang8
winapi8
lint8
ffi7
rust6
linter6
api5
clippy5
windows5
columns5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
CTG-Boulder/ETK-prototype
Jul 2020 - Mar 2023
Encounter (contact) tracing prototype
Contributions:5 PRs in 2 years 7 months
prototypetracingencountercontact-tracing
hbooth/ETK-prototype
Jul 2020 - Oct 2020
Encounter (contact) tracing prototype
Contributions:8 PRs, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
prototypetracingencountercontact-tracing
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