Steve Rutherford
Staff Software Engineer at Google
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteve Rutherford is a Staff Software Engineer based in Seattle with 12 years of experience specializing in x86 virtualization, kernel programming, and VM security. At Google he has led efforts across Shielded VMs, confidential live migration, and virtualization/kernel security, rising from VirtSec SWE to Staff Engineer. He combines deep systems-level expertise with product-minded execution, securing virtual machines on GCP and guiding cross-team delivery of complex platform features. Steve’s background reflects both long-term ownership of security-critical infrastructure and hands-on kernel development, with a habit of turning low-level research into production-grade protections.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Washington
Github Skills (97)
security10
go-packages10
random-data10
tpm10
remote-attestation10
golang9
api9
kvm9
footprint9
vdi9
go8
cpu8
virtualization7
operating-system7
firecracker7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
stevenrutherford/ring
Aug 2020 - Nov 2020
Safe, fast, small crypto using Rust
Contributions:1 review, 3 PRs, 19 pushes in 2 months
cryptographyrustcryptorust-langsafe
google/go-tpm-tools
Jan 2019 - Oct 2019
Go packages built on go-tpm providing a high-level API for using TPMs
Contributions:4 reviews, 4 commits, 10 PRs in 8 months
golangtpm2apisecurityhigh-level
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