past

Stuff I was up to before this ~quarter.

My latest adventure was founding a security startup and taking it through YC S22 as CTO.

I've stepped away to build other things now, but am grateful for this incredible experience.

I worked as an engineer on the Libra project on what I hope to be the future of payments.

I was lucky to work with a world-class team and learn a ton - especially about security and applied cryptography.

OpenMined

One of my favorite open-source communities is OpenMined; they make differential privacy tools for deep learning.

I enjoyed contributing to this group while in college.

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old.allison-bellows.com

I generally use this site to learn new tools and have fun. It will probably always be weird.

Before the recent redesign, it was even uglier - but also had more fun features. (Pending updates that may even this out). Feel free to check out the old version linked above.

I like making dumb videos. Here's one that recapped 09/21-09/22.

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BYU

I studied CS at BYU. I minored in Math and Stats, paying homage to my initial intent to study Math and/or Actuarial Science.

Increasingly each year, I spent more time on side projects and "offboarding from the LDS tradition" and less time on classes.