Jules Drean
Co-founder at Tinfoil
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJules Drean is a co-founder building Tinfoil, a startup focused on verifiably private AI that ensures users are the only ones to see their data. He holds a PhD from MIT where his research advanced trusted hardware, secure processors, formal verification, and microarchitectural defenses for secure enclaves. With nine years of experience and internships at NVIDIA and Microsoft, Jules bridges cutting-edge research and practical productization of confidential computing. He has hands-on expertise applying applied cryptography and system design to real-world cloud and Smart NIC security problems. Based in Cambridge, MA, he brings both deep academic rigor and startup execution skills to privacy-first AI. A less obvious strength is his ability to translate low-level hardware security insights into deployable cloud services and developer-friendly privacy guarantees.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Security, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Security at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyClasse préparatoire aux grandes écoles, Mathematics and Physics, Classe préparatoire aux grandes écoles, Mathematics and Physics at Lycée Henri IVMaster of Science - MS, GPA 3.99/4.00, Master of Science - MS, GPA 3.99/4.00 at Telecom ParisTech
French, English, Spanish
Github Skills (3)
sanctum8
monitor6
security5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ilebedev/sanctum
Jan 2019 - Feb 2020
The MIT Sanctum processor top-level project
Contributions:42 commits, 3 pushes in 1 year
mitsanctum
ilebedev/security_monitor
Jan 2019 - Mar 2020
Contributions:108 commits, 3 PRs, 36 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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