Robin Budd
Ex Tech Professional at Self-employed
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolRobin Budd is an experienced software architect and former technology executive with 11 years focused on hands-on engineering and decades more leading product and hardware teams. Based in Seattle, he favors systems programming—especially Rust—and has contributed to secure, distributed systems work such as the Ockam project's C implementation for key exchange and TCP transport. He has founded and led consulting and product organizations, driven turnarounds as interim CTO/VP roles, and scaled teams and processes to deliver complex, compliant systems (including HIPAA and FDA contexts). Known for bridging bleeding‑edge engineering with pragmatic business needs, he combines low-level coding chops with executive experience managing budgets, vendors, and large multidisciplinary teams. In retirement from full‑time work he continues to tinker with languages like Elixir and contribute to open-source security and transport primitives, reflecting a persistent builder’s mindset.
10 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BS, BS at University of WashingtonUniversity of Washington Foster Business SchoolStanford University
Github Skills (8)
key-management10
rust10
cryptography10
encryption10
tcp10
security10
user-authentication9
authentication9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
build-trust/ockam
Nov 2019 - Mar 2021
Orchestrate end-to-end encryption, cryptographic identities, mutual authentication, and authorization policies between distributed applications – at massive scale.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:38 reviews, 211 commits, 85 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Robin focused on implementing and integrating new features for the C implementation of the ockam project, specifically related to key exchange protocols and TCP transport. The commits demonstrate work on setting up the transport and key exchange within the C library. The user also contributed to testing and demonstrating the implemented features.
policyenforcemente2eeidentitycredentials
SanjoDeundiak/ockam
Jun 2020 - Jun 2020
Tools to build connected systems you can trust.
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
kubernetesconnectedtrust
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