Marcella Hastings
Research Engineer at Galois, Inc.
United States
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Top SchoolMarcella Hastings is a research engineer and cryptographic scientist with 13 years of software engineering experience, currently building privacy-preserving systems at Galois. She holds a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania where her dissertation evaluated the practical readiness of secure multi-party computation (MPC) and produced case studies and tool surveys that bridge theory and deployable systems. Her industry work includes designing, auditing, and implementing cryptographic protocols for private off-chain payment channels and other real-world applications at Bolt Labs and internships at Microsoft and BU focused on MPC frameworks. Marcella combines academic rigor with hands-on engineering, moving protocols from prototype to production-ready implementations. Colleagues rely on her ability to translate complex cryptographic primitives into auditable, practical code and operational designs. She is based in the United States and has a track record of shaping privacy tools that emphasize security during active data use.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science Mathematics at Tufts UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Masters (MS) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Masters (MS) Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (105)
fhe10
co-simulation10
scheme10
ecdsa-signature10
threshold10
multiparty10
zcash10
signature10
mpc10
cryptography10
reward10
computation9
crypto9
bolt9
payment9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
boltlabs-inc/tss-ecdsa
Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
An implementation of a threshold ECDSA signature scheme
Contributions:583 reviews, 10 commits, 129 PRs in 22 days
schemecryptographyecdsa-signaturethreshold-ecdsasignature
marsella/vim
Jun 2014 - Jan 2019
Contributions:5 commits, 1 push in 4 years 8 months
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