Dan DraperFounder

Australia - Greater Sydney Area

I'm a passionate technologist and an Entrepreneur. I have been cutting code since I was 10 but have always had a penchant for business and commercialisation.

For most of my career I've been either a founder or worked in the leadership team of startups. I understand the highs and lows of building businesses and the tech and product teams that support them.

My current venture, CipherStash is the culmination of many years leading dev teams and the ever increasing need to manage customer data securely. Based on recent advances in searchable encryption technology, CipherStash is a new data-storage platform that keeps data encrypted at all times while still providing the search capability to which developers have become accustomed.

I'm also a fervent believer in the need for representation in tech. Diverse teams tend to significantly outperform other teams and it is also important that the people building technology represent those who use it. As the Executive Producer for Debugging Diversity, I hope to champion the change needed in tech to diversify the workforce and to make tech accessible to everyone.