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Ben Adida

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Founder at VotingWorks

Greater Boston

FoundedVotingWorks · YC

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About

Ben Adida is the Executive Director of VotingWorks, a non-profit organization that develops voting technology. The organization focuses on transparency, simplicity, and security in its election systems.

Founder at VotingWorksYC W19

Intro paths

YC

Ben went through Y Combinator (Winter 2019) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

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VotingWorks's investors · 2

Floating PointBostonY CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2019

Experience

  1. VotingWorksExecutive Directorcurrent2018 — presentBoston, Massachusetts, United States
  2. Creative CommonsBoard Member2014 — 2020
  3. Creative CommonsTechnical Advisor2002 — 2014
  4. CleverVP Engineering2015 — 2018San Francisco Bay Area
  5. SquareDirector of Engineering2013 — 2015San Francisco
  6. Mozilla CorporationDirector of Engineering2011 — 2013
  7. Mozilla CorporationStaff/Principal Engineer2011
  8. Harvard Medical SchoolLead Architect / Instructor / Research Faculty2007 — 2011
  9. W3CAdvisory Committee Member2003 — 2011
  10. Harvard UniversityPostDoctoral Fellow2007 — 2009Cambridge, MA
  11. OpenForceFounder, CEO & CTO2000 — 2003New York, NY
  12. OpenACS ProjectCo-Founder and Director1999 — 2002
  13. ScientAssociate1999 — 2000
  14. ArsDigitaFounding Member, Developer1998 — 1999

Skills & more

Security52Privacy5Medical Informatics2Computer Science37Research16Informatics11Cloud Computing9Privacy Law15HTML10Software Development25Python15Web Applications57
+11 moreJavaWeb DevelopmentNetwork SecurityAlgorithmsData AnalysisDistributed SystemsHTML 5User ExperienceOpen SourceJavaScriptHTML5

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Ben Adida?
Ben Adida is the Executive Director of VotingWorks, a non-profit organization that develops voting technology. The organization focuses on transparency, simplicity, and security in its election systems.
Where does Ben Adida work?
Ben Adida is Founder of VotingWorks.
What companies did Ben Adida found?
Ben Adida founded VotingWorks.
Where did Ben Adida go to school?
Ben Adida studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD, Cryptography and Information Security); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.Eng., Computer Science); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (B.S., Computer Science).

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