Jeff Hodges
Company Owner at Darkish Green
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeff Hodges is a seasoned distributed systems engineer and consultant with 11+ years of experience building secure, large-scale infrastructure for organizations like Twitter, Signal, and Let's Encrypt. He founded Darkish Green to help engineering teams make better technical and organizational decisions, and served as Principal Software Engineer at Color advising on system design and processes. Jeff played a key role in launching Let's Encrypt’s backend and has been publicly associated with forward secrecy work covered by the New York Times and Guardian, reflecting deep cryptographic chops beyond routine implementation. At Twitter he helped found the anti-spam team, improved Trust & Safety tooling, and contributed to webserver and storage scalability efforts, including work that influenced global traffic security. He contributes to standards documentation, notably improving WebAuthn spec clarity, and combines hands-on coding with a strong emphasis on the social dimensions of engineering. Based in San Francisco with a physics background, he’s equally comfortable debugging low-level protocols and coaching teams through complex trade-offs.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Physics, Bachelor of Science (BS) Physics at Bowling Green State University
Github Skills (4)
documentation10
webauthn10
api-documentation10
technical-writing10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
w3c/webauthn
Mar 2016 - Jun 2022
Web Authentication: An API for accessing Public Key Credentials
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:7 releases, 176 reviews, 253 commits in 6 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Jeff's contributions primarily focused on improving the documentation for the WebAuthn specification. The commits involved extensive editorial changes, including grammatical corrections, terminology updates, and clarifications of technical concepts. The user also added new sections, updated references, and improved the overall structure and clarity of the documentation to better explain the API for accessing Public Key Credentials.
apipublic-keywebauthnweb-authenticationauthentication
equalsJeffH/Internet-Drafts
Feb 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:70 pushes, 39 branches in 1 year 2 months
tokeninternetietfdraftsbinding
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