Simon Leet
Engineering Privy
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Leet is an experienced Principal-level engineer with 8+ years focused on privacy, security and moving research into production across cloud, edge and device ecosystems. He has led secure platform work at Paxos and Microsoft—ranging from HSM-backed custody and policy engines to Azure Confidential Compute and Dapr incubation—bringing practical privacy protections into distributed systems. A hands-on contributor to notable open-source projects like Dapr and Open Enclave, he’s improved runtime components, testing infrastructure, and low-level enclave primitives to make secure primitives more maintainable and testable. Based in Redmond and Cornell-educated, Simon combines systems-level rigor with a product-minded drive to operationalize research, often surfacing subtle implementation details (retry/backoff, system properties, conformance tests) that materially improve reliability and security.
8 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Cornell University
Chinese, Japanese
Github Skills (45)
kubernetes10
container10
docker10
ncl10
el10
microsoft-azure10
c1110
eventhub10
dockers10
cicd10
c1710
cl10
azure-eventhub10
automation10
low-level-programming10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
openenclave/openenclave
Dec 2017 - Mar 2021
SDK for developing enclaves
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:250 reviews, 229 commits, 105 PRs in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Simon focused on refactoring internal low-level enclave function calls, as well as modifying and removing legacy code for improved security and maintainability. Their work included removing obsolete constructors and destructors, as well as refactoring OCALL and ECALL primitives. The commits demonstrate a focus on refactoring internal components and improving the low-level structure of the enclave.
trusted-execution-environmentdevelopingteesdkconfidential-computing
dapr/components-contrib
Jun 2021 - Dec 2021
Community driven, reusable components for distributed apps
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:133 reviews, 49 commits, 47 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily contributed to the Azure Event Hubs components, enhancing both bindings and pubsub functionality. Their work included updating dependencies, implementing the passing of system properties, and adding retry and backoff handling. The commits demonstrate a focus on integrating Event Hubs with Dapr's components, aligning with the repository's goal of creating reusable components for distributed applications. The user also added conformance tests for bindings and pubsub to ensure their correct implementation.
sqlserverevent-hubscommunity-drivenmongodbcosmos-db
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