Tom Jones
Founder at trustregistry.us
Sammamish, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Jones is a founder and seasoned security technologist with nine years of recent focused experience and a multi-decade career shaping trusted computing from Multics-era systems to modern TEEs. He builds identity and privacy ecosystems—currently leading trustregistry.us—to give users control of identifiers while meeting multinational standards and real-world government and enterprise requirements. Tom’s work spans program management and hands-on development at Microsoft and Intel, standards leadership (founding ANSI X9A10), and practical cryptographic product design dating back to early commercial PGP and encrypting modems. He combines seasoned threat analysis and standards expertise (OpenID, NIST, FIDO, Kantara, OIX) with a practitioner’s eye for deployable solutions that balance usability and robust protection. Based in Sammamish, WA, he is an active advocate for identifier security and privacy, pursuing pragmatic architectures that anticipate evolving multiparty transactions.
9 years of coding experience
40 years of employment as a software developer
BS, BS at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyWestern Reserve Academy
Github Skills (168)
entity-framework10
mapper10
database10
openid10
dotnet-core10
dotnet9
change-tracking9
http-response9
sql9
linq9
identity9
http-api9
authentication9
asp-net-core9
asp-net9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
KantaraInitiative/DistributedAssurance
Nov 2019 - Nov 2020
Contributions:33 commits, 35 pushes, 19 comments in 1 year
KantaraInitiative/Inclusion
May 2024 - Feb 2025
This repository is where feedback for any inclusion issues with the Digital Identifier Inclusion and related reports are to be collected and addressed.
Contributions:3 PRs, 31 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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