Hossein Rezai
Staff Software Engineer at Kraken Digital Asset Exchange
United States
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Top SchoolHossein Rezai is a Staff Software Engineer specializing in cryptographic custody solutions, hardware security modules, secure elements, and MPC with over a decade of hands-on experience in applied cryptography. Currently at Kraken, he architects and implements vault systems and firmware for HSMs and secure elements, and has led the vault team as a senior engineering manager. His background spans founding a PKI company, industrial ICC card systems, and academic research including multiple peer-reviewed papers on secure wallets and backup strategies, reflecting rare depth across product, hardware, and research. He pairs a PhD-focused security education with practical firmware and HSM programming work dating back to 2005, often operating at the intersection of secure hardware design and production-grade custody software. Notably, he has moved from developing secure card ecosystems and PKI for banks to building large-scale crypto custody infrastructure, showing an uncommon trajectory from embedded security to exchange-level custody.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
High-School Diploma, Mathematics and Physics, High-School Diploma, Mathematics and Physics at National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talents (Sampad)Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering at QIAUDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at University of Central Florida
English, Persian
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Github Skills (41)
orientation8
nfc8
textinput8
smartcard7
android6
javacard6
react5
pkcs5
clipboard5
security5
eventlog5
react-native5
ios5
middleware5
websocket4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
hosseinpro/MinidriverSpy
Feb 2017 - Mar 2023
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 6 years 1 month
hosseinpro/smartcardPage
Jul 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:1 release, 27 commits, 21 pushes in 1 month
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