Drew
Parker

Drew Parker is a mathematician-turned-technical-founder building production systems at the intersection of AI, security, and learning at scale. Drew is the Co-Founder and CTO of Dainamiq, a venture focused on applications in quantum networking. In parallel, Drew serves as Co-Founder and CTO of Rationarium, a venture providing open-source educational infrastructure to universities across North America.

Trained as a pure mathematician and a hardware tinkerer by disposition, Drew spent thirteen years on the mathematics faculty at CUNY, serving as Principal Investigator on US Department of Education grants totaling $3.25M. Across all of this work, Drew specializes in privacy- and security-first systems: infrastructure that puts control in the hands of the people using it rather than the platforms hosting it.

Drew sits on the Executive Board of The WeBWorK Project as Managing Editor of the Open Problem Library — an open educational resource used by more than a thousand institutions globally — and is an inventor on patents in agentic-AI workflow automation and quantum-safe cryptographic orchestration. Drew holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Mathematics from the University of Kansas, an M.Ed. in Secondary Education from St. John’s University, and a B.A. in Mathematics and Computer Science.