Drew Fisher's website

I'm a technology enthusiast, and this is my homepage. I want to build load-bearing systems that survive me.

I'm currently a software engineer at Google, working on Fuchsia, a modern operating system that aims to bring object capabilities to real systems (among other things). I maintain zxcrypt, our encrypted storage driver, and work on applying the Principle of Least Authority to the runtime environment we expose to programs.

Previously, I worked at Stripe building better tools for the hard, important parts of running a business on the internet. I worked largely on our internal monetization platform.

Before that, I worked at Sandstorm building a usable and secure platform for running web apps. I did a bit of everything: core platform features, UX, developer tooling, documentation, the whole nine yards.

Before that, I worked at AeroFS, building usable collaboration tools for enterprises. I touched everything from distributed algorithms and performance tuning to security and packaging software for all three major desktop platforms.

I studied security and human-computer interaction at the University of California at Berkeley, where I earned my master's degree. I was co-advised by David Wagner and Björn Hartmann.

I enjoy all sorts of random electronics and software projects. Below, you'll find some examples that I've worked on long enough to merit a writeup.

• I'm a founding member of the Berkeley Campus League of Puzzlers. We write puzzlehunts.
• OpenKinect, the community developing open-source Kinect drivers. I've worked on reverse-engineering, documenting, and implementing both the camera command set and the audio protocol.
• My blog, affectionately titled the Shortlog. I wrote the original engine in an hour as an exercise in both Python and forcing myself to deliver code. Now, I write entries about the minutia of my life and add features to the engine as needed.
• A USB adapter for a SNES controller, no driver installation required.
• Whitepages V3, a program I wrote for the Texas A&M Honors Housing Community to collect residents' contact information and produce a document for publication to be distributed throughout the dorm, with as little manual document-editing labor as possible.
• A DDR Pad that has no moving parts that was built as part of an embedded design project, with pictures and design explanation.
• An Assassins/Paranoia (see Wikipedia explanation of the game) game generator, with further information on the mathematics of the game.
• A tartan pattern simulator for exploring tartan designs.

Here are my projects on GitHub.

My resume is here.

My email address is drew.m.fisher@gmail.com. My PGP public key id is 9AA232D6F1C7C38E. I am in the strong set, and you can download my key here.