San Francisco
Chelsea McElveen
Inventor of Fully Homomorphic Compression. Patent holder and technology leader.
I invented a codec that lets systems search, append, and compute on data while it stays compressed and encrypted — and I’ve spent fifteen years leading the engineering to ship technology like it under real constraints.
109 patents
Granted, allowed, and pending across three families and nine jurisdictions. Sole inventor.
15 years
Leading engineering as a CTO, staff engineer, and staff architect.
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Selected across Canada, the United States, and Mexico for the Society of International Business Fellows’ North American Leadership Academy.
Invention
FastCodec is the production implementation of Fully Homomorphic Compression: lossless compression with in-place search, append, and compute on compressed, encrypted streams. No decode step. Measured at 230 MB/s compression and roughly 812 MB/s decompression per thread on commodity hardware.
It has flown — operating aboard the IM-2 Athena lunar mission on a space-hardened RISC-V system.
Leadership
Fifteen years leading engineering as a CTO, staff engineer, and staff architect. Eight-plus of those years built for Fortune 100 clients — including a Fortune 100 private bank and a leading SIEM provider — with zero security incidents across every engagement, and one that cut cloud spend 75 percent. I take a small number of concurrent fractional engagements, with the judgment to ship under real constraints.
Intellectual property
Three families: content-agnostic file indexing, compression and encryption, and encode and decode operations. Priority dates 2017 to 2021. Forward citations include granted patents at Oracle, with further citations from Intertrust, Alibaba, ZTE, and Bank of China. Independently assessed in a Quality of IP report.
Personal
Off the clock, I coach throws for the San Francisco Track & Field Club.