Christopher Allen
Founder, Executive Director, Principal Architect at Alacrity Management
Berkeley, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarChristopher Allen is a software architect in the SF Bay Area with 11 years of experience specializing in blockchain and decentralized identity. He is an internet cryptography pioneer and a co-author of IETF TLS and W3C DID standards, bringing protocol-level rigor to system design. Christopher designs architectures that bridge cryptographic standards, decentralized identifiers, and collaborative tooling to enable secure, interoperable systems. He is known for turning standards work into practical patterns and developer-friendly tools that accelerate adoption. Combining deep protocol expertise with hands-on architecture, he focuses on solving real-world security and identity challenges.
11 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (200)
padding10
cryptocurrency10
chat10
specification10
command-line-tool10
prose10
commandline-tool10
identifier10
seed10
blockchain-platform10
administration10
cryptography10
command-line10
catalina10
jsonld10
Programming languages (30)
Github contributions (5)
BlockchainCommons/secp256k1-schnorrsig
May 2018 - Feb 2022
Optimized C library for EC operations on curve secp256k1
Contributions:6 PRs, 6 pushes, 7 comments in 3 years 9 months
adazcashc-librarysecp256k1curve
DyversHands/www.DyversHands.com
Dec 2018 - Oct 2024
Contributions:517 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 11 months
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