Jorge Navas
Senior Research Engineer at Certora
United States
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Top SchoolJorge Navas is a Senior Research Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in static analysis and formal verification for safety- and security-critical software. He has driven tooling and research at organizations like Certora, SRI International, and NASA Ames, co-creating and maintaining influential projects such as SeaHorn, IKOS, and the Crab abstract interpretation library. His work bridges deep research—PhD-level program analysis and novel abstract domains like Wrapped Intervals—with practical engineering, producing tools used in DARPA programs and commercial analyzers. Notably, he led development of whole-program debloating (OCCAMv2) and has integrated solvers like DReal into verification pipelines, showing a knack for combining solvers, interpreters, and LLVM-based tooling. Based in the United States, he pursues developer-focused innovations that make formal methods accessible and usable in real-world software assurance.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at The University of New MexicoBachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
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Github Skills (81)
interpretation10
solver10
security10
maximization10
program-analysis10
bitcode10
static-analysis10
abstract-interpretation10
smt10
crossword10
analyzer10
transition-systems10
llvm10
ssa10
verification10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
caballa/seahorn
Oct 2019 - Apr 2021
SeaHorn Verification Framework
Contributions:74 pushes, 30 branches in 1 year 6 months
securityverification
caballa/wrapped-intervals
Mar 2015 - Dec 2017
Contributions:7 commits, 7 pushes in 2 years 9 months
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