Summary
Sapphire Livingstone is a cyber security specialist joining Jane Street with eight years of hands-on experience across vulnerability research, secure tooling, and applied cryptographic systems. She holds a first-class BSc in Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh and completed an exchange at the University of Pennsylvania, where she also taught computer and network security. Her background spans research internships at CrowdStrike, systems and Rust-based tooling at D. E. Shaw, and vulnerability work for L3Harris and blockchain clients, demonstrating fluency in Rust, Haskell, and offensive security techniques. As president of SIGINT and CompSoc she organised large-scale CTFs and managed budgets and communities, blending technical depth with program leadership. She has practical experience shipping Kerberos/Vault integrations, credential self-service tools, fuzzing frameworks and Merkle-tree based crypto authorization systems. Colleagues describe her as a pragmatic researcher who bridges low-level exploit development and production-grade secure engineering.
7 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, First, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, First at The University of Edinburgh
Advanced Highers: Maths, Statistics, Computing Science (AAA), (A A A), Advanced Highers: Maths, Statistics, Computing Science (AAA), (A A A) at George Heriot's School
Exchange Year, Computer Science, Exchange Year, Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania