Jean Snyman
Research Engineer at Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJean Snyman is a research engineer specializing in applied cryptography, confidential computing and secure protocol design, currently performing security architecture research at Hewlett Packard Labs. With a decade of hands-on experience spanning founding a web consultancy to leading IT and security for multi-site businesses, he combines practical engineering with formal methods and systems verification. A high-achieving academic—MSc (Distinction), top cyber security student in the UK (Fred Piper Award) and best dissertation winner—he has produced formal security analyses and designed TEE-backed authentication solutions at the Surrey Centre for Cyber Security. Comfortable bridging research and implementation, Jean has delivered secure, auditable systems across web, cloud and embedded contexts and brings a knack for translating threat models into pragmatic, high-impact mitigations.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
International A Level, Computer Science, 93% (A*), International A Level, Computer Science, 93% (A*) at Cambridge Assessment International EducationHigh School Diploma, 3 distinctions, High School Diploma, 3 distinctions at Southdowns CollegeMSc, Information Security, 82% (Distinction), MSc, Information Security, 82% (Distinction) at University of Surrey
English, Afrikaans
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (37)
security10
virtualization10
attestation10
ima10
trust10
tpm10
bootstrap9
iot9
spotify-api8
kubernetes8
archiving7
playlists7
paper7
spotify7
middleman6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
hse-aurora/keylime-oss
Apr 2023 - Mar 2025
A CNCF Project to Bootstrap & Maintain Trust on the Edge / Cloud and IoT
Contributions:1 PR, 74 pushes, 9 branches in 1 year 11 months
stringlytyped/filmsoc
Aug 2019 - Feb 2020
Website for the University of Surrey Film Society
Contributions:54 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
eventsreactforestry-cmscssfilm
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