Megan Woods
Senior Software Engineer at Crypto Workshop
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolMegan Woods is a Senior Software Engineer based in Melbourne with 13 years of experience specializing in making cryptography accessible to engineers across domains. She has deep hands-on expertise in Java and C# cryptographic libraries—contributing builder implementations and tests to the well-known Bouncy Castle project—and has driven FIPS-compliant Android ports, native accelerations, and bespoke ACVP test harnesses. Her work balances rigorous security and customer confidentiality with pragmatic engineering, from low-level assembler and native optimizations to build and test automation. Megan founded a small business building customizable SME software and has broad backend experience across Scala, Go, and cloud-hosted systems. She frequently bridges research and production, porting C reference implementations to higher-level languages and integrating cryptography into real-world platforms. Colleagues rely on her for thoughtful, auditable solutions that prioritize correct failure behavior and operational testability.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
MIT, Minor Thesis, Forecasting and Decision support systems in Agriculture, H1B, MIT, Minor Thesis, Forecasting and Decision support systems in Agriculture, H1B at Monash University
Github Skills (9)
javas10
cryptography10
java10
tls139
libtls9
crypto9
tls129
mtls9
dtls8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
bcgit/bc-java
Oct 2017 - Jan 2022
Bouncy Castle Java Distribution (Mirror)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:31 commits, 2 comments in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Megan primarily contributed to the implementation of builder functionalities within the Bouncy Castle Java Distribution. Their work involved creating new builders and refactoring existing code to enhance the system. The commits also included the modification of test classes with new tests for the project. The changes indicate the user's focus on functionality of the cryptographic library.
openpgpcastlecryptoswigjava
R358/qppp
Apr 2015 - Mar 2020
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch, 3 comments in 5 years
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