Kat Fox
Staff Software Engineer at zeroRISC
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolKat Fox is a Staff Software Engineer based in London with 11 years’ experience building embedded security and cryptographic hardware, now developing open-source turnkey hardware security solutions with the original OpenTitan team at zeroRISC. A founder of Radical Semiconductor (acquired 2024), she led design of low-power, low-area accelerators for both post-quantum and classical crypto and brings rare end-to-end expertise spanning assembler stacks to silicon-focused embedded firmware. Her background blends rigorous mathematics (Stanford, Honors) and practical ML and bioinformatics research, informing a methodical approach to protocol design, reverse engineering, and formal methods. Known in the CTF/infosec community and comfortable across hardware and software layers, she’s equally likely to prototype a cryptographic primitive or optimize a hardware crypto accelerator for constrained devices.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics and Computer Science, Mathematics and Computer Science at Oregon Episcopal SchoolBachelor's with Honors, Mathematics, Bachelor's with Honors, Mathematics at Stanford University
Spanish
Github Skills (118)
post-quantum10
gps10
wireguard10
bluetooth10
arm10
embedded10
operating-system10
resolutions10
vpn10
cortex-m10
ecdsa10
rust10
silicon10
risc-v10
microcontroller10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
stanfordroboticsclub/jetson-config
Mar 2018 - Jun 2024
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch, 1 tag in 6 years 4 months
radical-semiconductor/woodpecker
Oct 2022 - Dec 2022
A past down-to-the-metal cryptography challenge designed by Radical Semiconductor.
Contributions:43 commits, 3 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 month
cryptography
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.