Igors Stepanovs
Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
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Top SchoolIgors Stepanovs is a Senior Applied Scientist with a PhD in computer science and over a decade of experience applying cryptography to real-world software security. Based in Madrid, he combines deep academic research—postdoctoral work in applied cryptography at ETH Zürich—with hands-on engineering roles across startups and Amazon, focusing recently on device provisioning and attestation. His background includes prototyping advanced ideas such as FHE-enabled whitebox cryptography and building low-level C++ cryptographic primitives, reflecting a comfort with both theoretical math and production code. He consistently bridges research and product needs, turning subtle cryptographic insights into auditable, deployable systems. A detail that sets him apart is his early work automating source-code protection via AST-based refactoring tools, revealing a long-standing interest in tooling that enforces security at the code level.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Mathematics of Cryptography and Communications, MSc Mathematics of Cryptography and Communications at Royal Holloway, University of LondonMSc Computer Science, MSc Computer Science at Latvijas UniversitateProgmeistarsUniversity of California, San DiegoRiga State Gymnasium No.1
Github Skills (3)
cryptography2
database2
encryption1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
UCSDCSE107/playcrypt
Jan 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:8 commits in 10 months
CSE107-Winter2018/playcrypt
Jan 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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