Eric Amador is a Product Manager at Thales Digital Identity & Security, based in Austin, Texas, where he leads the Luna HSM product line and the integration of post-quantum cryptography, 5G, and crypto-asset capabilities into hardware roots of trust. His work spans market analysis across the Americas, EMEA, APAC and the Middle East, and the FIPS 140-3 Level 3 and Common Criteria EAL4+ certifications that anchor the product line. Eric has spent nearly 30 years inside real-world cryptography. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He started as a banking transaction server developer at Sopra Steria, moved through Gemalto in security architecture, EMV technical consulting, and program management \u2014 supporting Tier-1 US bank migrations to EMV – and then support digital banking offering (adaptive authentication, transaction signing, fraud prevention) before taking on the Thales Luna HSM PM role in 2021. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He holds an MSc in Software Engineering from Aston University, an engineer’s degree in Computer Science from ENSIIE, and is fluent in English, and French. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Independently, Eric is the creator of pqctoday.com – an open-source, AI-augmented PQC education and migration platform. The site lets practitioners run real ML-KEM, ML-DSA, and SLH-DSA operations directly in their browser through OpenSSL WASM and liboqs, query a 10,000+ chunk RAG corpus of authoritative sources through a fully local AI assistant, and explore standards, threats, vendor products, and timelines through trust-scored, cross-referenced views. It’s where Eric’s day-job perspective on the cryptographic foundation meets his belief that PQC literacy has to be open, interactive, and accessible – exactly the intersection this conference is mapping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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