Mike Stay
Director Of Research And Development at F1R3FLY.io
Lindon, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolMike Stay is a research-driven engineering leader with 18 years of experience bridging mathematical physics, cryptanalysis, and production software security. He holds a PhD exploring intersections of math physics and CS and has practical impact ranging from a ciphertext-only Zip attack and coauthoring the best-known AES attack until 2009 to leading security work at Google that influenced ECMAScript 5. As CTO of Pyrofex he built and managed an R&D team and co-designed the Casanova consensus algorithm that powered a prototype achieving 57k TPS, and he continues to lead R&D at F1R3FLY.io. Mike combines deep theoretical insight with hands-on exploits and product delivery—he even recovered significant Bitcoin via improved crypto analysis—and enjoys solving hard, unconventional technical problems. Based in Lindon, Utah, he is primarily open to consulting and high-leverage research engagements.
18 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at University of AucklandBachelor of Science (BS), Physics, Bachelor of Science (BS), Physics at Brigham Young University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (77)
gist10
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jquery10
blogger10
typescript10
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stackedit10
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nightwatch9
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wordpress9
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
metaweta/jscategory
Dec 2014 - Jun 2017
Contributions:19 commits, 16 pushes in 2 years 6 months
metaweta/phdthesis
Apr 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:75 commits, 66 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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