Tuyet Duong
Senior Security Researcher at OtterSec
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTuyet Duong is a Senior Security Researcher with 11 years of deep expertise in blockchain security, specializing in smart contract audits across Solana, Ethereum, Algorand and other chains, consensus engineering for PoW/PoS systems, and cryptographic primitives like elliptic curves and threshold signatures. She blends academic rigor—a PhD focused on cryptography and blockchain and creation of hybrid PoW/PoS prototypes—with hands-on leadership in industry roles at OtterSec, FYEO, and Kudelski Security. Her work spans code-level audits, protocol design review, and research-driven vulnerability analysis, and she has been recognized internally for excellence in cryptography engineering. Based in Pittsburgh, she brings a rare combination of protocol-level theory and practical exploitation-proofing, often tackling advanced crypto constructs and multi-mode cryptocurrency systems that few auditors attempt.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at High School for Gifted Students, Hanoi University of Science, Vietnam National UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Cryptography and Blockchain, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Cryptography and Blockchain at Virginia Commonwealth UniversityBachelor's degree, Information Technology, Bachelor's degree, Information Technology at Vietnam National University, Hanoi
Vietnamese, English
Github Skills (5)
simulation4
testing4
codebase3
rapid3
consensus2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
Topl/Crypto
Feb 2021 - May 2021
Contributions:19 commits, 17 pushes, 1 issue in 3 months
Topl/Prosomo
Mar 2021 - Apr 2021
Simulation and testnet client of Ouroboros consensus protocol incoporating key components of Bifrost codebase for rapid testing
Contributions:16 commits, 16 pushes in 1 month
consensus-protocolconsensustestingbifrostsimulation
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