Kevin Griffin
VLEI Software Developer Team Lead at Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF)
Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolKevin Griffin is a software leader with 15 years of experience who currently leads the vLEI software development team at GLEIF, building verifiable legal entity identifiers using KERI and Trust over IP specifications. He combines hands-on engineering with protocol design, contributing to core open-source projects like keripy, keria, and signifypy and to specifications for KERI, ACDC, and CESR. His background spans mobile, backend, and distributed identity systems—ranging from Android multi-dex improvements and PhoneGap NFC work to significant contributions in Hyperledger Aries' mediator and message pickup protocols. Kevin has repeatedly bridged product, research, and engineering roles, having led innovation and architecture efforts at Scoir and DIRECTV LifeShield. He’s comfortable operating between low-level implementation details and standards-level design, and he often focuses on making complex cryptographic and messaging systems practical for real-world products. Based in Pennsylvania, he brings a pragmatic, open-source-first approach to building auditable, interoperable identity infrastructure.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc (Honours), Computing for Real-time Systems, B.Sc (Honours), Computing for Real-time Systems at University of the West of England
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Github Skills (22)
phonegap10
javascript10
mobile-development10
back-end-development10
cordova10
nfc10
dc10
aries10
android-development10
java10
javas10
go10
android10
maven10
mobile10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
chariotsolutions/phonegap-nfc
Jun 2011 - Jan 2013
PhoneGap NFC Plugin
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:75 commits in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily contributed to the PhoneGap NFC Plugin, focusing on Android development. Their work involved modifying the plugin's Java code to handle NFC interactions, including registering MIME types, registering for various NFC events, and writing NDEF messages. The user made changes to the demo application and build processes. The user also addressed bugs related to tag writing and improved the plugin's lifecycle management.
nfcpluginphonegap
hyperledger-aries/aries-framework-go
Jun 2020 - Jul 2020
Hyperledger Aries Framework Go provides packages for building Agent / DIDComm services.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 8 PRs, 16 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Kevin contributed significantly to the `aries-framework-go` repository, focusing on improvements and additions to the `mediator` and `messagepickup` protocols. Their work included implementing features like a `Noop` message for message pickup, integrating message pickup and mediator functionalities, and refactoring existing code. These changes directly impacted the core didcomm functionality and message routing within the Aries framework, evidenced by updates across client and service implementations.
golanghyperledgerdecentralized-identifiersaries-frameworkagent
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