Tom Leavy
Chief Technologist at DBGorilla
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolTom Leavy is a Chief Technologist and former Principal SDE with 11 years of experience building secure, scalable messaging and database-focused AI systems. He helped design and lead implementation of end-to-end encrypted protocols—co-authoring the Wickr Messaging Protocol and contributing to the MLS IETF RFC—while driving AWS’s open-source mls-rs and wickr-crypto-c projects. A hands-on engineer and cross-platform architect, Tom has shipped iOS, Android, desktop and server-side crypto libraries and has repeatedly bridged product, security, and engineering at startup and enterprise scale. Now focused on agentic AI for teams managing databases at scale at DBGorilla, he combines deep applied cryptography with product intuition and a founder’s agility. An entrepreneur at heart, he still codes core components and routinely turns protocol research into production-grade open-source implementations.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Network Security, Bachelor's degree Network Security at New Jersey Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (136)
messaging10
noise10
crypto10
noise-reduction10
janus10
recurrent10
der10
hmac10
cryptography10
pem9
audio9
swift9
spectrogram9
mls9
perl9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
tomleavy/libscrypt
Oct 2017 - Apr 2025
Contributions:18 pushes, 9 branches in 7 years 6 months
shared-librarycryptographybcryptscryptencryption
tomleavy/crypt_blowfish
Oct 2017 - Apr 2025
Contributions:2 PRs, 29 pushes, 9 branches in 7 years 6 months
cryptographycrypt
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