Dionna Glaze
Senior Software Engineer at Apple
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolDionna Glaze is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years of systems and security-focused engineering experience, currently working on identity and attestation for Apple silicon at Apple in Seattle. She has deep expertise in confidential computing and firmware/virtualization—contributing to projects like EDK II (OVMF SEV‑SNP support), Google Cloud’s AMD SEV attestation stack, and Intel SGX for Linux. At Google she drove remote attestation, kernel and IETF RATS contributions, and reference tooling for SEV/TDX attestation, blending low-level systems work with cloud-scale engineering. Her background in programming languages and static analysis (PhD-level research) informs a careful, correctness-first approach to building secure platforms. Beyond the obvious, she has experience optimizing database runtime query evaluation and building energy grid data pipelines, showing a habit of applying deep technical skills to diverse, mission-driven problems.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at The University of Texas at AustinDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Programming Languages - Static Analysis, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Programming Languages - Static Analysis at Northeastern University
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Github Skills (35)
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Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
google/asylo
May 2018 - Mar 2021
An open and flexible framework for developing enclave applications
Role in this project:
Back-end & System Engineer
Back-end & System EngineerContributions:290 commits, 5 PRs, 13 pushes in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Dionna primarily contributed to the Asylo framework by adding missing protobuf includes and fixing IWYU pragmas, which improved code compilation and organization. They addressed grammar mistakes in documentation and replaced static link options with a static feature, improving build flexibility. Furthermore, the user updated dependencies, integrated new features, and made various code changes related to build processes, signal handling, memory alignment, and system calls.
trusted-execution-environmentdevelopingteeflexible-frameworkconfidential-computing
intel/linux-sgx
Aug 2017 - Oct 2019
Intel SGX for Linux*
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & System Architect
Back-end Developer & System ArchitectContributions:1 review, 18 commits, 34 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Dionna primarily contributed to the Intel SGX for Linux* repository by fixing compilation errors and addressing internal issues related to enclave creation and runtime environment. Their work included correcting typos, adding necessary includes, and removing deprecated definitions to improve code quality and compatibility. Furthermore, they focused on deoptimizing and refining function attributes. The user also added an API function to check if the enclave has crashed.
linuxintelintel-sgxsgx
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