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Toby Hede
Member #352Tech LeaderL1VP of Engineering, CipherStash
Queryable encryption - data stays encrypted in use, and only an identity-bound policy can decrypt a val
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About
Toby Hede is VP of Engineering at CipherStash, a Sydney company that builds queryable encryption for Postgres, so teams can search data that stays encrypted in the database. He is a hands-on engineer and technical leader with more than 20 years of experience. He is also known for open-source work such as go-underscore, a Go utility library, and postgresql-event-sourcing.
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Experience
VP of Engineering
VP of Engineering · CipherStash
Principal Engineer · CipherStash
Head of Technology, Domain Insight · Domain
Director, Engineering, Amaysim Mobile · Optus
Head of Engineering · amaysim
Engineering Manager, Architecture, Customer Experience Technology · Scentre Group (Owner and Operator of Westfield in Aus and NZ)
Head of Architecture & Devops · Reckon
Software Engineering Lead (Contract) · Digital Transformation Office (DTO)
Education
Griffith University
The University of Queensland
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