Stuart Schechter
Associate
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolStuart Schechter is a security researcher and entrepreneur with a decade-plus career at the intersection of usable privacy, ethics, and systems, currently an Associate at Harvard SEAS and founder of DiceKeys. His academic and industry work (Microsoft Research, MIT Lincoln Lab) has debunked widely adopted security measures—like site-authentication images and secret questions—and influenced Windows UX and government guidance. He builds pragmatic defenses: from password-strength techniques and memorization aids to hardware-backed backup keys that reduce lockouts. Stuart has taught usable security at UC Berkeley, led ethics efforts to measure research harms in real time, and brings hands-on product experience from founding multiple startups. Having lived and worked internationally (including five years in Seoul), he combines technical depth with a focus on accessible, consumer-first security.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at Harvard UniversityBachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at The Ohio State University
Stackoverflow
564reputation
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Github Skills (200)
tooling10
webextension10
javascript10
safari10
firefox10
html10
cli10
electron10
cryptanalysis10
browser-extension10
typescript10
dev-server10
nodejs10
hmr10
css10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
dicekeys/seeded-crypto-ios
Oct 2020 - Jul 2022
iOS port of the Seeded Cryptography Library
Contributions:4 reviews, 8 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year 8 months
cryptographycryptography-librarycryptanalysispost-quantum-cryptographycrypto
uc-berkeley-w215/main
Jun 2020 - Aug 2020
The main public repository for the class
Contributions:70 commits, 31 PRs, 48 pushes in 2 months
public-repository
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