NicholeĀ Schimanski
Engineering Project Lead at Galois, Inc.
Beaverton, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolNichole Schimanski is an Engineering Project Lead with eight years of experience translating deep mathematical insight into practical software and research outcomes at Galois. Trained as a PhD mathematician, she blends expertise in probability, combinatorics, and abstract algebra with hands-on algorithm development for cryptographic primitives, pairing pencil-and-paper proofs with production-ready code. Her background spans data science and engineering roles across startups and research organizations, where she has led projects that benefit from parallelizable algorithms and cluster computing. Comfortable mentoring and teaching (with prior adjunct and TA roles), she brings both technical leadership and a knack for turning theoretical problems into scalable, testable implementations. An ongoing interest in MPI and high-performance parallelism highlights a pragmatic drive to push research into efficient, distributed practice.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Mathematical Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Mathematical Sciences at Portland State University
Github Skills (12)
structures9
relational-algebra8
crypto6
encryption6
cryptography6
workbench5
python4
computation2
intervals2
rust-lang1
multi-party-computation1
rust1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
GaloisInc/FAW
Dec 2020 - Mar 2022
Galois Format Analysis Workbench
Contributions:4 reviews, 4 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 2 months
pythonformat-analysisgaloisworkbench
GaloisInc/daedalus
Apr 2021 - Feb 2024
The Daedalus data description language
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
data-description-languagedaedalusrelational-algebralanguage-description
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