Ryan Cottone
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Gilroy, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Cottone is a UC Berkeley undergraduate researcher and security-focused software engineer with eight years of practical experience across academia and industry. He works on applied cryptography with professors Raluca Ada Popa and Natacha Crooks and has interned on high-impact security teams at NVIDIA, Verkada, and MIT Lincoln Laboratory, delivering searchable encryption, traffic validation proxies, and efficient key services. As Head TA for CS 161, he shapes curriculum and exams, blending teaching with hands-on systems work. Ryan’s projects emphasize provable privacy and deployable engineering—balancing cryptographic rigor with measurable production gains, such as halving latency and drastically reducing network overhead in prior internships.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
BS BA Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Mathematics, BS BA Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Mathematics at University of California, BerkeleyHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Christopher High SchoolGavilan College
Github Skills (30)
cal10
crypto9
discord8
javascript7
css7
react7
security5
french5
discord-bot4
jquery3
html3
discord-js3
arabic-nlp3
finance3
ohlc3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
DaJuukes/PIVXTipBot
May 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:120 commits, 64 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
CodebreakingAtCal/CodebreakingLabs
Aug 2022 - Mar 2023
Contributions:79 commits, 92 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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