Jordan Hand
Staff Software Engineer at Google
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJordan Hand is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience focused on infrastructure and platform security, currently securing compute and machine learning platforms at Google. He brings deep systems and firmware expertise from roles at Microsoft (Azure Confidential Compute, Open Enclave SDK) and extensive open-source contributions to projects like Open Enclave and the Rust-based oreboot firmware fork. Jordan blends low-level firmware/boot work and assembly preprocessing with higher-level enclave and socket/syscall engineering, demonstrating a rare full-stack security-for-hardware perspective. Based in Seattle and trained at the University of Washington, he is equally comfortable refactoring test harnesses and enabling cross-platform builds as he is designing secure boot paths. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architectural decisions that bridge hardware, firmware, and cloud security stacks.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Informatics, Bachelor of Science - BS Informatics at University of Washington
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Github Skills (27)
bootloader10
assembly10
c-language10
preprocessing10
multithreading10
preprocess10
windows10
firmware10
c-preprocessor10
x8610
directives10
socket10
preprocessor10
rust10
cprogramming-language10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
openenclave/openenclave
Sep 2019 - Jun 2020
SDK for developing enclaves
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 125 commits, 121 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Jordan's commits primarily focused on porting the `tls_e2e` test host from pthread to `std::thread`. They refactored the code to release locks when finished and fixed build errors related to missing labels. Additionally, the user added socket syscalls to Windows to support mbedtls. The user also refactored socket syscalls and corrected error code reporting throughout the codebase.
trusted-execution-environmentdevelopingteesdkconfidential-computing
oreboot/oreboot
Jul 2021 - Nov 2021
oreboot is a fork of coreboot, with C removed, written in Rust.
Role in this project:System Architect / Embedded Systems Engineer
System Architect / Embedded Systems EngineerContributions:31 reviews, 11 commits, 13 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Jordan primarily contributed to the low-level system aspects of the oreboot project, focusing on integrating and utilizing FSP (Firmware Support Package). Their work included implementing a procedural macro for preprocessing assembly files and modifying the bootblock to accommodate FSP integration. This involved refactoring the FSP code to support different architectures and calling FSP initialization routines in protected mode. Additionally, they updated the boot code for the upxtreme board and other QEMU emulations.
rustcortex-acorebootbaremetalbootloader
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