Patrick Wardle
Chief Executive Officer at Objective-See Foundation
Kula, Hawaii, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPatrick Wardle is a macOS security specialist, founder of Objective-See, and current CEO of DoubleYou.io with over a decade of experience hunting Apple 0-days, analyzing macOS malware, and building practical defenses. His background includes research roles at Jamf and Synack, earlier stints at the NSA and NASA, and advanced degrees from Johns Hopkins, giving him rare cross-disciplinary expertise in both offensive and defensive security. Patrick is a hands-on developer and maintainer of well-regarded open-source tooling—most notably LuLu, a widely used free macOS firewall—where he’s driven platform support, UI improvements, and reliability fixes. He combines public-speaking pedigree from major security conferences with an operator’s focus on shipping intuitive, cloud-enabled protections for Mac users.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityBachelor of Science (BS) Information and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Information and Computer Science at University of Hawaii at Manoa
Github Skills (10)
objective-c10
swift10
macos10
networking9
security9
ui-design9
graphical-user-interface9
user-interface9
cprogramming-language7
c-language7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
objective-see/LuLu
Sep 2017 - Jan 2023
LuLu is the free open-source macOS firewall
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:34 releases, 2 reviews, 51 commits in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Patrick primarily contributed to the macOS firewall application, enhancing its functionality and user interface. Their work included implementing features like M1 support and remote block list integration, as well as bug fixes for the rule filter. They also worked on UI improvements in the alert window and preferences, along with refactoring and cleaning the code. Furthermore, the user was involved in version bumping the application.
macossecurityfirewallmdm
objective-see/FileMonitor
Sep 2019 - Jan 2021
File Monitor Library (based on Apple's new Endpoint Security Framework)
Contributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 19 pushes in 1 year 5 months
monitorendpoint-securitysecuritysecurity-frameworkendpoint
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