Andrew Ayer
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Andrew
Ayer

“I'm a software engineer who works on security, usability, networking, and cryptography. […] I'm the bootstrapped founder of SSLMate”in their words · agwa.name

12
products
2018
full-time since

Career

Every main product, who ran it, and when it changed hands.

DNS Helper2022 →
NOW
Cert Spotter2016 →
NOW
SSLMate2014 →
NOW
Side projects9
2013201520172019202120232025
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The journey

Bootstrapped SSLMate since 2014; launched Cert Spotter (2016)

Latest

Nov 2019Cert Spotter: Launched a new version of Cert Spotter with expiration monitoring and a web dashboard
Apr 2018SSLMate became his full-time job
Apr 2018SSLMate: Released SSLMate for SaaS, a service that gets certificates for the customer domains a SaaS company hosts
Dec 2017On Brown CS Blog, Alum Adventures profile
Mar 2017SSLMate: Started operating a Certificate Transparency gossip endpoint

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