Kaz Wesley

Kaz Wesley has been working in the software engineering field since 2004. In 2005, they worked as a Software Developer for Jon Babcock Translation. In 2010, they worked as a Software Application Developer for the Participatory Culture Foundation, a Software Dev and Hardware Tech for Green Penguin, a Data Director, IT Director, Software Dev, and Web Admin for David Segal for Congress, and a System Administrator, Web Dev & Design for Thompson Falls High School. From 2011 to 2014, they were a Systems Programmer/Operator/Consultant for Brown University CS Dept. and a Contributor for Bitcoin Core. From 2019 to 2022, they were a Principle Developer and Maintainer for Rust c2-chacha crate, where they wrote the fastest Rust implementation of ChaCha20 and family, and was selected by the rand crate to serve as the de-facto default RNG for Rust. Kaz is currently a Senior Software Engineer for Enso. Kaz has also contributed code reviews and bugfixes to rand, implemented a crypto-oriented runtime-dispatched SIMD, fixed a years-elusive concurrency bug, implemented a nontrivial feature in the IR-printing module, and worked on various contracts.

Kaz Wesley attended Brown University from 2008 to 2012, where they studied Computer Science.