Jesse Kriss
Owner at Monorail Technology
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJesse Kriss is a security-minded software engineer and founder with nine years of experience building user-centered web architectures, information visualizations, and resilient infrastructure from startups to Netflix. As Owner of Monorail Technology and former Head of Security at Watershed, he blends hands-on engineering with security leadership and IT operations to deliver pragmatic, user-aligned defenses. His tenure at Netflix included designing developer-friendly security tools that respect real user behavior, and earlier roles at JPL and IBM reflect a long-running focus on human interfaces and complex system design. A Free Software enthusiast and privacy promoter, he publishes a PGP key publicly and brings a defender’s mindset to product and platform decisions. Trained in Human-Computer Interaction (Carnegie Mellon) and professional coaching, he pairs design empathy with technical rigor to influence cross-functional teams. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Jesse is equally comfortable hacking on infrastructure as he is advising thesis students and shaping secure, usable systems.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Professional Coaching Course, Professional Coaching Course at New Ventures WestBA Music, BA Music at Carleton CollegeMA Human-Computer Interaction, MA Human-Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (161)
penetration-testing10
btrfs10
burp10
grep10
menu10
pager10
optimus10
highlighting10
duckyscript10
weechat10
scanner10
ncurses10
dirsearch10
linux10
hash10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Kr1ss-XD/grub-btrfs
Dec 2018 - Mar 2022
grub-btrfs, Include btrfs snapshots at boot options. (Grub menu)
Contributions:27 pushes, 21 branches, 1 tag in 3 years 3 months
menugrub-menugrub-btrfsoptionssnapshots
Kr1ss-XD/Kr1ss-XD
Jul 2020 - Sep 2023
Contributions:53 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
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