Will Abramson
DID WG Co-Chair at Legendary Requirements
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolWill Abramson is a decentralised identity and privacy-focused engineer with nine years of experience designing protocols and infrastructure that enable trusted interactions in autonomous digital systems. As DID Working Group Co-Chair at W3C and former Identity Team Lead at OpenMined, he blends standards leadership with hands-on engineering—building demos, Docker-enabled backends, and integrations using Aries/Indy tooling and verifiable credentials. He holds a PhD candidacy focused on privacy-preserving, user-centric identity solutions and has applied that research in healthcare credentialing and privacy-preserving ML contexts. A prolific open-source contributor, Will helped configure secure duet demos in the widely used PySyft project, tying together frontend, backend, ngrok, and Aries-based Python automation. Based in London, he pairs academic rigor with practical product delivery, and even contributes speculative fiction exploring identity in crisis, signalling a rare mix of technical depth and creative perspective.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Full Stack Web Development Certification Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Development Certification Computer Software Engineering at freeCodeCampBEng Computer Science With a Year in Industry Computer Science, BEng Computer Science With a Year in Industry Computer Science at University of York6th Form Maths Further Maths Physics Chemistry, 6th Form Maths Further Maths Physics Chemistry at Ilkley Grammar SchoolDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Edinburgh Napier University
Github Skills (8)
configuration-management10
python10
dockers9
docker9
network-configuration9
apidoc7
api7
javascript4
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
OpenMined/PySyft
Nov 2020 - May 2021
Perform data science on data that remains in someone else's server
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 72 commits, 3 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Will primarily focused on setting up and configuring a Duet demo environment, involving both backend and frontend components. They implemented scripts to manage services like ngrok and set up initial configurations for Secure Sockets Layer (SSI) duet. They integrated Python scripting using the aries-basic-controller library to manage peer-to-peer connections and issue credentials, incorporating environment variables for configuration. Their work also touched upon integrating Docker for the backend and UI development.
pytorchcryptographyacquiringpythonscience
JohannesHa/meet-up
Sep 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:33 commits, 7 PRs, 14 pushes in 1 day
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