Jonathan Claudius is a veteran security leader and CEO with over two decades of hands-on experience across consulting, operations, incident response, research, engineering, and executive leadership. He has led security programs at Mozilla and Jump Crypto, building risk management, incident response, and product security practices while advising C-suite stakeholders on high‑stakes decisions. At Asymmetric Research he now assembles elite teams that web3 founders call when the stakes are highest, blending technical depth with people-first leadership. A pragmatic engineer and bug-hunter who contributes to open-source projects like the Wormhole protocol (improving test coverage and reliability), he retains strong developer chops alongside executive savvy. Known for solving hard problems with a mix of technical horsepower and social influence, he consistently turns complex risk into auditable, actionable outcomes. Based in New York, he pairs formal networking/system administration training with a career-long focus on making security a force multiplier for product teams.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS Applied Networking and System Administration, BS Applied Networking and System Administration at Rochester Institute of Technology
AAS Computer Information Systems, AAS Computer Information Systems at State University of New York College of Technology at Alfred
A reference implementation for the Wormhole blockchain interoperability protocol.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Contributions:299 reviews, 132 commits, 155 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Jonathan primarily contributed to adding and enhancing unit tests within the Wormhole project. Their work focused on creating tests for various data structures, payloads, and core components, including chain IDs and guardian sets. The user refactored existing tests, adopting Testify for improved coverage and maintainability. Their contributions improved test coverage across the project and ensured code reliability.
An API for ssh_scan (https://github.com/mozilla/ssh_scan) and the backend API service for the Mozilla SSH Observatory (https://observatory.mozilla.org/)
Contributions:2 releases, 164 PRs, 238 pushes in 4 years
apimozilla-observatoryscanobservatoryssh
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Jonathan Claudius - Chief Executive Officer at Asymmetric Research