Biography
Dave Wheeler is a principal engineer at Amazon in Amazon Security’s Specialized Business Security (SBS) division where he is the technical leader for Devices and Services Cryptography team. Dave and his team support the cryptography needs of Devices product teams, such as Alexa, Ring, FireTV and Project Kuiper. Dave’s team has built PQC algorithm implementations for XMSS (eXtended Merkle Signature Scheme) and ML-DSA (Module Lattice Digital Signature Algorithm) as well as a general-purpose abstraction API for cryptographic libraries to improve PQC crypto-agility. Dave has been developing government and commercial cryptographic solutions for the past 30+ years. He is the author of two books on IoT security and 13 patents, two of which are for faster XMSS signature verification.