James Kasten
Senior Software Engineer II at Snowflake
Danville, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Kasten is a Senior Software Engineer II with 13 years of experience specializing in security and PKI, currently on Snowflake’s Product Security team focusing on workload identity federation and TLS consulting. He previously led Google’s publicly trusted certificate authority as a Staff Software Engineer, launching a public ACME endpoint that helped Google become the third-largest publicly trusted CA and earning recognition for cloud security impact. James coordinates TLS strategy across global engineering teams and serves on GTS’s Policy Authority, pairing cryptographic depth with operational leadership during high‑profile incidents. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering (4.0 GPA) and a summa cum laude dual degree in Economics and Computer Science, a combination that informs both his technical rigor and sensible approach to regulatory and economic trade-offs.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science and Engineering, GPA 4.0, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science and Engineering, GPA 4.0 at University of MichiganBachelor's Degree, Economics and Computer Science, GPA 3.964, summa cum laude, Bachelor's Degree, Economics and Computer Science, GPA 3.964, summa cum laude at Vanderbilt University
Github Skills (58)
encrypt10
ssl10
acme-protocol10
python10
letsencrypt10
acme10
authority10
certificate10
aes-gcm10
certificate-authority10
x50910
specification10
certbot10
ssl-certificate10
pki10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jdkasten/acme-spec
Apr 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:19 pushes, 6 branches in 5 months
specificationletsencryptacme
Keith320/letsencrypt
Jun 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:38 commits in 3 months
nginxletsencryptsslcoming-soonansible
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