Summary
Hubert Gồng is a seasoned security and cryptography leader with 12+ years driving R&D and strategy at major financial and technology firms, now serving as a Managing Director at JPMorgan Chase. He led PayPal’s Emerging Technology Research, shaping crypto policy, PQC and quantum initiatives, and represented the company on the FIDO Alliance board and PCI Encryption Task Force. His expertise spans advanced cryptographic primitives (homomorphic, attribute-based, MPC), PKI/TLS deployments, and secure architectures for cloud and mobile services. Hubert has a strong identity-and-protocol pedigree from Sun and Sony, where he helped design OpenSSO, OAuth/OpenID integrations and DRM-related systems. He combines deep academic grounding (PhD-level computer science) with hands-on product security work, uniquely blending long-term crypto research with pragmatic operational controls and compliance. Based in San Jose, he is known for translating cutting-edge cryptographic research into deployable, policy-compliant solutions for large-scale payment systems.
12 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
PhD computer science, PhD computer science at Pierre and Marie Curie University
French, Spanish, mandarin (basic)