Steven Thornton
Security Services Manager at OpenZeppelin
Canada
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Top SchoolSteven Thornton is a Security Services Manager at OpenZeppelin with 11 years of quantitative and security-focused experience bridging applied mathematics, data science, and blockchain security. He holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics from Western University and has a research background in numerical analysis, symbolic computation, and parametrized matrix algorithms—including work on Bohemian matrices. At OpenZeppelin he progressed from fellow to researcher to manager, bringing rigorous mathematical thinking to smart contract security and risk engineering. Prior roles in risk management and data science at digital asset and financial firms give him hands-on experience applying statistical models and quantitative risk controls to real-world portfolios. Steven combines academic depth with practical security operations, often translating abstract algebraic insights into pragmatic vulnerability analysis. He is based in Canada and known for turning formal math tools into scalable security practices for blockchain systems.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Applied Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Applied Mathematics at Western University
Github Skills (29)
decentralized-exchange9
erc209
mutation8
smart-contracts8
julia8
ethereum8
mxnet8
cryptocurrency8
portable8
dataflow7
solidity7
dep7
maple7
scala7
blockchain7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
BohemianMatrices/bohemian-python
Nov 2017 - Jun 2021
A Python package for visualizing Bohemian eigenvalues.
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 7 months
eigenvaluespythonvisualizingdata-visualizationpython-package
BohemianMatrices/BohemianMatrices
Nov 2017 - Aug 2023
BohemianMatrices.com website.
Contributions:2 PRs, 50 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 9 months
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