Jeremy Talis
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Pinterest
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeremy Talis is a Senior Staff Software Engineer and infrastructure security lead at Pinterest with a decade of experience building cloud-native security tooling in Go and Python. He designs, implements, and operates service authentication, Kubernetes platform security, and secure CI/CD supply chain features while advising teams via threat modeling and architecture reviews. A hands-on contributor to open-source secret management (notably adding SPIFFE/TLS-based auth to pinterest/knox), he blends deep engineering with mentorship and program leadership. Based in San Francisco, he brings a rare combination of low-level Linux and container expertise plus applied cloud security at scale.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
High School General Studies, High School General Studies at Loyola Blakefield High SchoolBachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at University of Maryland
Github Skills (10)
user-authentication10
authentication10
certificate10
x509certificates10
go10
cert10
x509certificate210
unit-testing9
api8
apidoc8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
pinterest/knox
Mar 2018 - Sep 2022
Knox is a secret management service
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:86 reviews, 40 commits, 48 PRs in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Jeremy primarily focused on enhancing the secret management service, Knox, by adding authentication features. Their contributions included implementing support for SPIFFE identifiers, integrating TLS-based authentication, and extracting Spiffe URI extensions. They also made improvements to error messages and added tests to validate authentication processes.
knoxsecret-managementsecrets-managerservice-managementsecrets
krockpot/lazyfs
Oct 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:25 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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