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About me
Francis Mendoza is a Filipino-American computer scientist working at the intersection of applied cryptography and resilient distributed systems. He holds a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from Arizona State University, where his research focused on cybersecurity for critical infrastructure and autonomous systems.
In industry, he is a software engineer at Keyfactor, contributing to both classical and post-quantum cryptographic libraries within Bouncy Castle, widely deployed across production systems with over 100 million downloads. He has previously worked with Fujitsu, the Linux Foundation, and Intel on cybersecurity research spanning zero-knowledge proofs, blockchain systems, and trusted execution environments.