Jed Lejosne
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Medford, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJed Lejosne is a Principal Software Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience in virtualization and security, currently driving backend and security features at Red Hat. He began by architecting and maintaining OpenXT, an open-source secure virtualization platform derived from Xen, where he owned root-of-trust, SELinux/XSM integration, USB virtualization and build infrastructure. Transitioning to cloud-native virtualization, Jed has contributed significant security work to KubeVirt—implementing EFI SecureBoot support, strengthening SELinux policies, and adding migration networking features—bringing VM workloads into Kubernetes. His profile blends low-level C/TPM/TXT expertise with modern Go-based cloud engineering, giving him rare end-to-end insight from firmware to orchestrated clusters. An experienced open-source maintainer and team lead, he is comfortable operating across product, research and community boundaries to deliver auditable, secure systems. Based in Medford, MA, he pairs formal low-level engineering training with a track record of productionizing security primitives in both bare-metal and cloud environments.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree Low-level programming and embedded systems, Engineer's degree Low-level programming and embedded systems at EPITA: Ecole d'Ingénieurs en Informatique
French, English
Github Skills (9)
kubernetes10
selinux10
go10
virtualization10
kubernetes-pods10
testing10
networking9
cicd9
system-administration9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
kubevirt/kubevirt
Feb 2020 - Jan 2023
Kubernetes Virtualization API and runtime in order to define and manage virtual machines.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:1132 reviews, 333 commits, 307 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Jed primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and security of KubeVirt, a Kubernetes virtualization API and runtime. Their contributions included implementing support for EFI SecureBoot, adding test infrastructure to verify those features, and refactoring the SELinux policy. Additionally, the user added a feature gate to enable or disable the custom SELinux policy and added the ability to use dedicated Multus network for migrations.
apivmsmachineslibvirtruntime
OpenXT/dm-agent
Mar 2015 - Mar 2019
Contributions:6 releases, 12 PRs, 10 pushes in 4 years
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