Neal Harris
Director Of Security at Persona
Mill Valley, California, United States
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Top SchoolNeal Harris is a security leader with 13 years of experience building and scaling security programs across startups and enterprise environments, currently serving as Director of Security at Persona in Mill Valley. He has led large cross-functional teams and driven product-focused security efforts—from launching Square’s first bug bounty to delivering hardware-backed key management and enclave products at Fortanix. Neal combines deep technical chops in applied cryptography and systems security with a strong operational focus, coordinating with product, executive, and government stakeholders to turn requirements into shipped, auditable systems. His academic background—Ph.D. work in number theory and representation theory after a BS in Mathematics and Symbolic Systems from Stanford—gives him unusual breadth in formal reasoning applied to practical security problems. Colleagues describe him as a strategic bridge between engineering and product who also rolls up his sleeves for technical delivery. He’s quietly skilled at translating complex crypto and attestation concepts into operational controls that customers and partners can adopt.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoBachelor of Science (B.S.) Mathematics and Symbolic Systems, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Mathematics and Symbolic Systems at Stanford University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (184)
scanner10
carrierwave10
keychain10
hsm10
stunnel10
static-analysis9
secrets9
crypto9
pem9
vulnerabilities9
authentication9
security9
proxy9
tunnel9
examine9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
nealharris/nealharris.github.io
Dec 2015 - Jan 2025
my page
Contributions:5 PRs, 34 pushes, 3 branches in 9 years 2 months
my-page
nealharris/Model01-Firmware
Jul 2018 - Jun 2019
The "standard" Keyboardio Model 01 Firmware sketch.
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
firmwareatmelsketchopen-hardwarethe-standard
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