Shawn Willden
Embedded Security Engineer at Applied Intuition
Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShawn Willden is an embedded security engineer with 17 years of experience building high-assurance systems, from payments encryption at Google to hardware-backed keystores for Android and current work at Applied Intuition. He combines deep expertise in cryptography, secure hardware integration, and systems architecture with hands-on implementation experience across embedded and application layers. At Google he led teams defining cryptographic keystores, data encryption, and authentication that run on specialized security hardware, and contributed to core key management code in prominent Android system repositories. His background includes enterprise smart card architectures at IBM and early systems work in broadcast and payments, giving him a rare cross-domain perspective on practical security engineering. Based in Utah, he pairs a methodical, defense-in-depth mindset with a history of shipping production cryptographic systems and collaborating with hardware partners to shape future secure platforms.
17 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
BS Mathematics Computer Science, BS Mathematics Computer Science at Weber State UniversityLayton High School
Spanish, English
Github Skills (3)
cprogramming-language10
c-language10
security-protocol10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
aosp-mirror/platform_system_core
Dec 2017 - Jun 2022
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:89 commits in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Shawn's contributions primarily revolve around modifications to the message versioning system within the core system core repository. These changes involve updates to various keymaster files, including modifications to the keymaster device and related request and response structures. The user's work appears to focus on the functionality and versioning of secure key management protocols.
DirtyUnicorns/android_system_security
Feb 2016 - Jan 2020
Contributions:121 commits in 4 years
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