Stephen Henson
President at ZebraSnake Games, LLC
Corbin, Kentucky, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Henson is a seasoned C++ software engineer and founder with 27 years of experience, currently leading ZebraSnake Games as President and shipping game projects from Corbin, Kentucky. He brings deep systems-level expertise demonstrated by substantive OpenSSL contributions—rewriting ASN.1 handling, adding TLS signature algorithm support including RSA-PSS, and evolving X.509 public key structures. A practical doer who prefers rolling up his sleeves, he pairs low-level cryptographic and back-end skills with occasional work in Python, Java, JavaScript, and Lua. His background in computer and information sciences and long tenure in both product and infrastructure work reflect a bias for finishing tough engineering tasks and shipping secure, reliable code.
27 years of coding experience
Associate's degree, Computer and Information Sciences, General, Associate's degree, Computer and Information Sciences, General at Somerset Community College
English
Github Skills (5)
tls1210
c-programming10
tls1310
rsa10
cryptography10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
openssl/openssl
Oct 2016 - Oct 2017
TLS/SSL and crypto library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:186 PRs, 429 comments, 5 issues in 1 year
Contributions summary:Stephen's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the OpenSSL library's ASN.1 (Abstract Syntax Notation One) functionality. The commits involved the implementation of new functions for encoding and decoding ASN.1 SEQUENCE structures, rewriting existing functions to use a new ASN.1 code base, and adding support for processing TLS (Transport Layer Security) signature algorithms, including the support for RSA-PSS, which enhanced the functionality of signature handling. The code changes also involved incorporating support for a new type of X509 public key structure.
crypto-librarycryptographyssltlscrypto
aosp-mirror/platform_external_openssl
Jan 1999 - Oct 2017
Contributions:7207 commits in 19 years
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