Kevin Jacobs
Security Architect at NVIDIA
Camas, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Jacobs is a security architect with 15 years of hands-on experience designing and validating cryptographic systems, secure execution, and threat models across Windows, Linux, macOS, x86, ARM, and embedded platforms. He has driven production-grade crypto work at Mozilla and Intel—implementing TLS/DTLS features in Firefox, accelerating crypto primitives, and prototyping post-quantum signing in HSMs—before moving into leadership roles at Cisco Meraki and NVIDIA. Kevin blends deep C/C++ and systems debugging skills with practical fuzzing, static/dynamic analysis, and container/Kubernetes know-how to find and fix subtle vulnerabilities. He’s experienced in standards and protocols (TLS, PKCS#11, OIDC/OAuth2) and has upstreamed security fixes and PKCS#11 patches to improve real-world deployments. A former Air Force cyber operator with graduate CS training from Georgia Tech, he pairs operational discipline with research-grade cryptographic rigor. Notably, he has a track record of translating experimental post-quantum and formally-verified crypto into deployable, interoperable solutions.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyB.S. Major: Computer Science Minor: Mathematics, B.S. Major: Computer Science Minor: Mathematics at Central Washington University
Github Skills (43)
webbrowser10
git10
thunderbird10
browser10
firefox-addon10
gecko10
firefox10
nss10
derivative10
fastest10
git-mirror10
mercurial10
mozilla10
webcrypto9
hsts9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
kevinjacobs/HTTPS-Finder
May 2011 - Apr 2014
Contributions:100 commits in 2 years 11 months
rulesetsfirefoxdiscoveringhttps-everywherefirefox-extension
kevinjacobs/yubico-piv-tool
Dec 2021 - Feb 2022
Command line tool for the YubiKey PIV application
Contributions:11 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
command-line-toolyubikeypivcommand-linecli-application
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