Jay Zarfoss
Staff Security Engineer at Netflix
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJay Zarfoss is a Staff Security Engineer based in Oakland with 14 years of experience building secure, production-grade systems at scale. He has a long Netflix pedigree—returning as a security lead after a decade-plus tenure as a Senior Security Software Engineer—and blends deep systems and cryptography-minded engineering with pragmatic software delivery. Jay’s contributions to high-profile open-source projects like Netflix’s Ribbon show hands-on expertise in secure client authentication, SSL configuration, and resilient IPC patterns. He pairs advanced academic training (MSE/BS in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins) with a wide industry lens spanning defense systems at L-3, agricultural tech at Farmer’s Business Network, and a stint as a stay-at-home parent, reflecting both technical rigor and grounded problem-solving.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins University
Github Skills (8)
ribbon10
javas10
http-client10
user-authentication10
authentication10
ssl10
java10
configuration-management9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Netflix/ribbon
Aug 2013 - Feb 2014
Ribbon is a Inter Process Communication (remote procedure calls) library with built in software load balancers. The primary usage model involves REST calls with various serialization scheme support.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Jay primarily contributed to the configuration and setup of client authentication within the Ribbon library, adding configuration keys and default values related to client authorization. Their work included modifying core configuration files and default client configuration implementations to accommodate client authentication requirements. Additionally, the user made adjustments to the RestClient, including changes to the SSL configuration and related testing, indicating an understanding of secure communication protocols.
interprocess-communicationload-balancerrestserialization
zarfide/lemur
Nov 2019 - Nov 2019
Repository for the Lemur Certificate Manager
Contributions:2 branches in 13 days
securitytlscertificatelemurcertificate-manager
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