Jamil Kheir
Founder at Firezone
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolJamil Kheir is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience building security-focused infrastructure and developer tools from Mountain View. He founded Firezone after a decade at Cisco where he co-architected internal security validation platforms, led performance and DevOps improvements, and built services in Ruby on Rails, Go, and Docker as part of Cisco’s Secure Development Lifecycle. His background spans hands-on incident hunting and SOC tooling to productizing security workflows, reflecting both offensive and defensive expertise. Entrepreneurial from early on, he ran Elbii LLC to deliver SSO, NLP-driven trademark research, and open-source SOC projects for startups and enterprises. Known for “sending packets where they’ve never gone before,” he blends low-level networking instincts with pragmatic cloud-native engineering.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at AustinY Combinator
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Github Skills (200)
devsecops10
autocomplete10
language-server-protocol10
vim-plugin10
docker-desktop10
wireguard10
security10
rust-lang10
vpn10
async10
hexpm10
browser10
liveview10
rust10
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Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
jamilbk/jamilbk.com
Oct 2017 - Feb 2025
Contributions:10 PRs, 29 pushes, 6 branches in 7 years 4 months
firezone/terraform-aws-gateway
Jul 2024 - Jul 2026
Terraform module for deploying Firezone to AWS
Contributions:9 releases, 5 reviews, 12 PRs in 2 years
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