Jesse Kornblum
Principal Security Engineer at NVIDIA
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarJesse Kornblum is a Principal Security Engineer with 13 years of experience building and scaling threat detection, malware analysis, and forensic capabilities across government and large tech environments. Beginning as a Computer Crime Investigator with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, he investigated felony-level criminal and counterintelligence cases before moving into applied research on memory forensics and similarity detection as a contractor. In the private sector he drove threat intelligence and abuse investigations at Facebook—automating workflows and contributing backend improvements to ThreatExchange—and now secures systems at NVIDIA. He combines hands-on incident work with team leadership and production engineering, having managed security engineers while shipping automated systems for large-scale malware and abuse response. An active open-source contributor, he has helped harden the widely used osquery project by fixing TLS verification issues and clarifying licensing and attribution. Colocated in San Jose, he brings a rare blend of investigative rigor, applied research, and production security engineering.
13 years of coding experience
Github Skills (26)
c-language10
licensing10
apidoc10
python10
it-security10
security10
api10
cprogramming-language10
scripting9
admin9
tls129
json9
tls139
database-administration9
databases9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
facebook/ThreatExchange
Mar 2015 - Mar 2019
Trust & Safety tools for working together to fight digital harms.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:75 commits, 69 PRs, 68 pushes in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Jesse primarily contributed to backend functionality, focusing on scripts interacting with the ThreatExchange API. They implemented features to retrieve and post data, including compromised credentials and member information. The changes involved modifying existing scripts and adding new functionalities related to threat indicator types and privacy settings, showcasing a focus on API interaction and data handling within the platform. The user also worked on updating the pytx library.
queryingsecurityshufflecybersecurityblue-team
osquery/osquery
Feb 2019 - Mar 2019
SQL powered operating system instrumentation, monitoring, and analytics.
Role in this project:Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:13 commits, 13 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Jesse's primary contributions focused on enhancing the security posture and licensing of the osquery project. They added Facebook copyright headers to numerous files, ensuring proper attribution and ownership, and updated licensing wording for clarity. Furthermore, they addressed critical security-related aspects by fixing a vulnerability in debug builds related to TLS verification. Finally, they added error messages for registry lookup failures.
instrumentationanalyticsoperating-systemsecuritysql
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