William Orvis
Software Developer Engineer Researcher at Data Theorem
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Orvis is a security-focused software developer and researcher with 17 years of experience building secure, production-grade systems from the ground up. Based in Oakland, he has driven architecture and product security at companies like Data Theorem and NCC Group, designing security meta-scanners, vulnerability management platforms, and robust authentication/authorization and encryption schemes for cloud services. He blends hands-on engineering across Ruby, Go, and AWS with practical security leadership—establishing secure development lifecycles, performing code reviews, and coordinating penetration tests. His background includes applied research and teaching from UC Davis, and he brings a user-centered motivation: solving hard security problems that empower people to control their digital lives. An understated strength is his track record of translating evolving security standards into actionable product policy and tooling for new TLDs and services.
17 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at University of California, DavisComputer Science, Computer Science at Las Positas College
Github Skills (175)
minecraft10
encrypt10
python10
fractal10
minecraft-fabric10
openstruct10
certbot10
act10
letsencrypt10
validation10
acme10
hash10
client-certificate10
heartbleed10
lancer10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
aetherknight/fractal-rs
Dec 2015 - Sep 2022
Rust-based program for drawing fractal curves
Contributions:208 commits, 12 PRs, 52 pushes in 6 years 10 months
fractalsrustfractalcurvesdrawing
iSECPartners/tlspretense
Aug 2012 - Sep 2021
A test framework for testing SSL/TLS client certificate validation.
Contributions:119 commits, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 9 years 2 months
sslvalidationtestingtlstest-framework
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