Paul Vixie
Deputy CISO (AWS) at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Redwood City, California, United States
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Top SchoolPaul Vixie is a veteran Internet infrastructure and security leader with over three decades of experience building and protecting critical DNS, mail abuse, and network services. Currently Deputy CISO at AWS and formerly VP/DE Security, he founded and led Farsight Security and the Internet Systems Consortium, and created influential tools and services such as BIND, MAPS/RBL, dnscap, and dnsdbq. His career blends deep hands‑on engineering (BSD, Cron, DNS) with executive leadership, including chairing ARIN and founding multiple successful ventures and exchanges like PAIX and MIBH. Known for turning operational research into widely adopted operational tooling, he has repeatedly commercialized open infrastructure work—one example being the acquisition of Farsight. Based in La Honda, California, he pairs a PhD‑level technical background with a practical instinct for making traction in difficult operational problems. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic innovator who quietly shapes the internet’s plumbing while running security at cloud scale.
13 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
PhD computer science, PhD computer science at Keio University
English
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Github Skills (157)
rtsp10
python10
api-client10
windows10
http10
websocket10
security10
pop310
malware10
command-line-tool10
sftp10
ftp10
ftps10
social-media10
telnet10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
BII-Lab/DNSoverHTTP
Apr 2015 - Nov 2018
a source code for DNS over HTTP implementation
Contributions:9 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
corednsproxydns
vixie/cron
Feb 2021 - Jan 2023
Vixie Cron, an open source implementation of POSIX Cron, later imported into BSD and Linux
Contributions:12 reviews, 3 commits, 19 PRs in 1 year 11 months
posixlinuxbsdfreebsdcron
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