Jay Cox
Senior Security Engineer at Google
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJay Cox is a senior security engineer with 15+ years securing firmware and OS foundations for major platforms, currently leading device platform integrity and vulnerability reward efforts for Google's Pixel, Nest, and Fitbit lines. He specializes in boot loaders, measured and secure boot architectures, and proximity authentication, and has driven tangible product improvements such as 10x lockscreen security enhancements. Formerly at Microsoft, he shaped UEFI/DFCI/MFCI initiatives and Secured Core PC requirements, giving him deep end-to-end threat-model expertise across attestation, code signing, and hardware roots of trust. Beyond engineering, Jay applies an analytical, ROI-driven approach to fiscal stewardship as a board treasurer overseeing seven-figure reserves and capital planning. He also advocates for practical financial literacy, translating complex security and economic trade-offs into accessible guidance for broader audiences.
8 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Chemical Engineering, B.S. Chemical Engineering at Oklahoma State University
Github Skills (52)
uefi10
ssl10
shim10
microsoft10
decryption10
windows10
firmware10
edk210
mdm10
mdt10
openssl10
cryptography10
loader10
tpm10
encryption10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
out0xb2/edk2-pytool-extensions
Nov 2019 - Sep 2020
Extensions to the edk2 build system allowing for a more robust and plugin based build system and tool execution environment
Contributions:1 PR, 27 pushes, 10 branches in 10 months
pythonextensionsbuild-systemexecutionedk2
out0xb2/edk2-platforms
Nov 2019 - Jan 2020
EDK II sample platform branches and tags
Contributions:3 PRs, 12 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
branchesodktagsxmake
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