Nathan Mccauley
Co-Founder And CEO at Anchorage Digital
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarNathan Mccauley is a security-focused engineering leader and founder with 11 years of experience building protection systems for payments and cloud platforms from San Francisco. As Co-Founder and CEO of Anchorage Digital and former Director of Docker Security and security lead at Square, he blends hands-on cryptography, reverse engineering, and product strategy to deliver auditable, production-grade key management and software protection. He’s contributed to high-profile open source projects such as Docker’s docs and Notary—adding secure key storage, caching, and a gRPC-based remote signing service—demonstrating an inclination for pragmatic, performance-minded security engineering. Nathan’s background spans firmware to cloud services and includes pioneering work on encrypted payment readers and PIN-on-Glass standards, showing a rare combination of low-level systems expertise and company-scale security leadership.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (10)
server-side10
key-management10
go10
grpc10
security10
dockers9
docker9
configuration-management9
testing8
cni4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
notaryproject/notary
Mar 2015 - Oct 2017
Notary is a project that allows anyone to have trust over arbitrary collections of data
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:66 commits, 31 PRs, 55 pushes in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Nathan implemented a remote signing service using gRPC to connect to a Rufus service. They added configuration options for the signing service, including the ability to specify a remote service or a local implementation. They also made minor updates to dependencies and configuration parameters. These changes indicate a focus on integrating external signing capabilities and configuring the server appropriately.
notarypythondockertrustarbitrary
docker/docs
Oct 2016 - Oct 2016
Source repo for Docker's Documentation
Role in this project:Back-end & Security Engineer
Back-end & Security EngineerContributions:1 comment in 1 day
Contributions summary:Nathan primarily worked on enhancing the security and functionality of the Docker documentation project, with a specific focus on key management and access control. Their contributions involved updating the keyfilestore to incorporate a passphrase retriever and modifying the `tuf.go` file, suggesting integration with a secure key management system. Additionally, they added caching for key stores, which improved overall application performance. These changes involved modifications to existing code and the addition of a test suite.
docker
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