Peter Nordholt
Staff Research Engineer at Chainalysis Inc.
Augustenborg, Region of Southern Denmark, Denmark
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Top SchoolPeter Nordholt is a Staff Research Engineer with a PhD in cryptography and over a decade of experience translating advanced cryptographic research into practical systems. Based in Denmark, he has driven applied cryptography and secure multi-party computation across academia and industry—most recently at Chainalysis—bridging rigorous malicious-security research with production-focused engineering. His background includes leading MPC work and product ownership for the open-source FRESCO framework, plus research collaborations across European projects and a visiting stint at the University of Maryland. Comfortable moving between deep theory and engineering delivery, he’s known for making complex privacy-preserving protocols pragmatic and deployable in real-world analytics and blockchain contexts.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Samsøgade SkoleMatematisk Student, matematik, Matematisk Student, matematik at Aarhus KatedralskoleBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Aarhus UniversitetThe University of Maryland, College ParkErasmus Student, Computer Science, Erasmus Student, Computer Science at Technische Universität Wien / TU Wien
Danish, English, German
Github Skills (83)
crypto10
secure-computation10
computation10
fresco10
deploying10
ordinals10
keras-tensorflow10
intellij10
plugin10
mpc10
multi-party-computation10
cryptography10
modular9
text-based9
clojure9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
GuutBoy/listmaker
Apr 2019 - Feb 2023
Scripts to update guutboy.github.io
Contributions:10 commits, 6 PRs, 26 pushes in 3 years 10 months
updatepython
GuutBoy/GuutBoy.github.io
Feb 2019 - Jun 2021
Contributions:94 commits, 170 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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