Cfir Cohen
Principal Software Engineer at Wiz
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCfir Cohen is a Principal Software Engineer based in Seattle with 20+ years of experience building security-focused systems and a decade in senior engineering roles. He has led and shipped trusted computing and virtualization security products at Google—helping launch Shielded VMs as a default—and now focuses on advancing cloud security at Wiz. Earlier roles include founding and leading a security research team for the Office of the Prime Minister of Israel and developing novel network-threat detection techniques at Check Point, including a patented method for finding executables in traffic. Known for technical leadership, mentorship, and a growth mindset, he pairs low-level systems expertise with product intuition to move research into production. A prolific creator of security tooling and CTF challenges during his time at Google, he brings a track record of turning deep technical insight into widely deployed, protective platforms.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Mathematics and Computer Science at The Open University of Israel
Github Skills (55)
distro9
manjaro9
pcie9
tpm8
client-server8
linux8
kernel8
zen8
upstream8
samsung7
confidential7
linux-kernel7
vdi7
virtual-machine7
vms7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
google/binja-hexagon
Jan 2021 - May 2022
Contributions:20 commits, 4 PRs, 20 pushes in 1 year 4 months
google/tpm-js
Sep 2018 - Jun 2020
Learn how to use your Trusted Platform Module (TPM)
Contributions:10 commits, 8 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 9 months
trustedtpmtrusted-platform-module
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