Jordan Phillips
Software Engineer at wolfSSL
Dallas, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJordan Phillips is a C/C++ software engineer in Dallas with 7 years of production experience building and hardening large, high-availability server products that process and store massive datasets for Fortune 500 customers. He brings a research-grade background in computational physics and materials science—authoring scalable MPI/OpenMP codes and memory- and CPU-optimizing algorithms during a PhD and postdoc—which informs his pragmatic approach to performance and parallelism in production systems. At wolfSSL he has acted as a security engineer, fixing TLS/DTLS vulnerabilities and improving OpenSSL compatibility for a widely used embedded-to-cloud SSL library. Comfortable across Linux toolchains and cloud storage (S3, Azure), he pairs low-level debugging (gdb, valgrind) with secure client-server design and cryptography. Outside work he still writes small C programs for fun, and he’s known to balance code with a good barbecue.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Physics, Bachelor's degree, Physics at Texas Tech UniversityMaster's degree, Physics, Master's degree, Physics at Central Michigan University
Github Skills (14)
dtls10
c1710
mtls10
ssl10
c-library10
tls1210
c1110
tls1310
cryptography10
libtls10
security10
encryption9
x5099
openssl9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
wolfSSL/wolfssl
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
The wolfSSL library is a small, fast, portable implementation of TLS/SSL for embedded devices to the cloud. wolfSSL supports up to TLS 1.3 and DTLS 1.3! Update to wolfSSL 5.9.1 for the latest CVE fixes.
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:170 reviews, 30 commits, 170 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Jordan primarily addressed security vulnerabilities and implemented security-related fixes within the wolfSSL library, focusing on TLS/SSL and DTLS protocols. Their contributions involve fixing use-after-free errors in DTLS 1.3 client implementations, enhancing the OpenSSL compatibility layer, and resolving potential vulnerabilities related to HTTP requests in DTLS. Additionally, they added and corrected API functionalities associated with X509 certificate handling. The user’s work directly improves the security posture and compliance of the wolfSSL library.
cvedtlsembeddedsslwolfssl
philljj/weightlifting
May 2020 - Jul 2026
Contributions:142 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 2 months
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