Ryan West
Founder, Lead IP Scientist at Source Code Discovery
Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolRyan West is a founder and lead IP scientist who blends eight years of hands-on software engineering with deep expertise in software IP forensics, having supported 50+ litigations through source-code review, expert reports, and trial testimony. He runs CodexWest and partners at Source Code Discovery, advising Fortune/Global 500 clients on litigation strategy, breach analysis, and complex distributed systems. His background spans SRE, blockchain, cybersecurity research, and data engineering, with published ACM/IEEE work on HCI, accessibility, and wireless/distributed systems. Notable for building production-grade distributed services (event-sourcing, cross-datacenter replication) and extracting forensic insight from live systems, he pairs academic rigor (PhD work at University of Utah) with practical courtroom experience.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
The University of UtahMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science — Cybersecurity & Distributed Systems, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science — Cybersecurity & Distributed Systems at Brigham Young University
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
sovrin-foundation/steward-tools
Feb 2019 - May 2019
tools for Sovrin steward
Contributions:56 commits, 6 PRs in 3 months
sovrinsteward
ryanwwest/engl316
Jul 2018 - May 2023
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 4 years 11 months
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