Harry Halpin
Chief Executive Officer at Nym Technologies SA
Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolHarry Halpin is a technology entrepreneur and privacy-focused CEO with 11+ years driving research and productization of privacy-enhancing technologies, most recently as the founder and sole CEO of Nym Technologies in Switzerland. He combines academic depth—a PhD in Informatics and ongoing research affiliation at MIT—with practical standards experience from leading Web Cryptography and Web Authentication efforts at the W3C that reached billions of users. At Inria he coordinated multimillion-euro crypto research programs toward standardization and commercialization, and he helped incubate Nym within Binance Labs. Known for opposing mass surveillance, he builds mixnet-based privacy infrastructure and a privacy-preserving authentication token to resist large-scale tracking. His career bridges research, standards, and startup execution, and he often sits at the intersection of cryptography, policy, and product implementation. Less obvious: he has repeatedly moved work from academic and standards venues into production-grade systems used at Internet scale.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Informatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Informatics at The University of EdinburghBSc. Computer Science and Cognitive Science, BSc. Computer Science and Cognitive Science at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Github Skills (50)
webcrypto10
google-chrome10
dom10
opera9
testing9
microsoft-edge9
browserstack9
public-key9
web-platform9
safari9
snippet9
gecko9
browser9
test-runner9
blink9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nextleap-project/nextleap
Jan 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 2 branches in 8 months
securecryptographynext-generationminingprivacy
hhalpin/srp-webcrypto
Feb 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 2 branches in 28 days
securewebcryptosecuritypassword-managerpassword
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