Summary
Bennet Yee is a seasoned security and distributed-systems engineer with over two decades of experience spanning academia, big tech, and startups, currently working on secure remote computation at Oasis Labs and serving on the Oregon State University Honors College Board of Regents. His career includes deep technical contributions at Google—covering Native Client, cross-platform middleware, and cryptographic protocols for datacenter transport security—as well as roles at Snapchat and Microsoft and a stint as an assistant professor. Known for a pragmatic, skeptical approach to system design (self-described “professional paranoid”), he blends applied cryptography and systems R&D to build auditable, practical security solutions. A Carnegie Mellon PhD with a background in math and computer engineering, he often operates at the intersection of research and production code, bringing rigorous thinking to real-world deployments.
10 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BS Mathematics Computer Engineering, BS Mathematics Computer Engineering at Oregon State University
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University