Full Stack Engineering: Cryptography in Practice

A hands-on workshop on the cryptographic patterns that show up in
production systems every day: envelope encryption with KMS, JWT
issuance and verification, mutual TLS between services, artifact
signing with Sigstore, and crypto-agility for the algorithm migrations
ahead. Five lab exercises with working code, mock infrastructure you
run locally, and reference solutions you can adapt to your own systems.

Developers and architects who want to move beyond “I've heard of these
things” to “I've built these things” should attend. You should be comfortable with
the basic cryptographic vocabulary (symmetric vs asymmetric, hash,
signature, certificate) and have a working Python environment. Prior
production crypto experience helps but isn't required — the labs are
designed to be approachable while still teaching real patterns.

About Brian Sletten

Brian Sletten is a liberal arts-educated software engineer with a focus on forward-leaning technologies. His experience has spanned many industries including retail, banking, online games, defense, finance, hospitality and health care. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from the College of William and Mary and lives in Auburn, CA. He focuses on web architecture, resource-oriented computing, social networking, the Semantic Web, AI/ML, data science, 3D graphics, visualization, scalable systems, security consulting and other technologies of the late 20th and early 21st Centuries. He is also a rabid reader, devoted foodie and has excellent taste in music. If pressed, he might tell you about his International Pop Recording career.

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