Nora Trapp
Engineer, Applied Social Media Lab at Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University
Brookline, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolNora Trapp is an experienced software engineer with seven years building secure, user-focused mobile and systems software, currently working in the Applied Social Media Lab at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center. She has led iOS efforts at Signal—contributing to a high-profile private messaging app and integrating privacy-preserving libraries like MobileCoin—and served as Technical Lead and iOS Lead across privacy-focused projects. As a founding engineer at Juicebox she combined cryptography, programmable HSMs, and UX design to simplify end-to-end encryption key recovery. Nora pairs product-minded mobile development (featured apps and HIPAA-compliant architectures at Joyable) with long-standing community leadership in maker and hacker spaces, including co-founding Cape Cod Makers and leading Double Union. Comfortable at the intersection of privacy, embedded systems, and user experience, she brings a knack for turning complex security primitives into approachable user workflows.
7 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Engineering, B.S. Computer Engineering at University of Massachusetts DartmouthEnvironmental Engineering, Environmental Engineering at University of Kassel
German, Arabic, English
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Github Skills (6)
swift10
ios10
ui-design9
interface-design9
user-interface9
user-experience8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
signalapp/Signal-iOS
May 2019 - Jan 2023
A private messenger for iOS.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:10 releases, 5 reviews, 4467 commits in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Nora primarily contributed to the iOS application's features and user experience. Their commits involved the integration of new Swift libraries such as MobileCoin. They also worked on improving the UI, by including the addition of story related functions and fixes to the code to solve issues with the user experience of different components such as the ChatList and the Group Story. Furthermore, the commits show the creation of UI for setting up story views and providing settings to the users.
signalchatcommunicationswiftios
signalapp/Argon2
Jan 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:6 reviews, 6 commits, 4 PRs in 11 months
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