Uriah Pollock
Sr. Software Engineer at wolfSSL
Mobile, Alabama, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolUriah Pollock is a senior software engineer with over 25 years of experience bridging software and hardware across embedded, networking, and IoT domains, now focused on secure TLS/DTLS work at wolfSSL. He combines a BS in Computer Science and Mathematics with hands-on embedded systems development, tooling/porting expertise, and multi-site engineering leadership from roles at Mentor Graphics, MapuSoft, and Red Lion Controls. Uriah has driven product certification, real-time OS ports, and network protocol integrations, and more recently contributed to wolfSSL’s DTLS 1.3 and X.509 improvements—highlighting a practical focus on security and compatibility for constrained devices. Known for mentoring distributed teams and turning complex porting challenges into automated toolchains, he blends deep low-level technical skill with strong customer-facing delivery. Based in Mobile, Alabama, he pairs field-tested troubleshooting chops with a history of managing cross-border engineering efforts.
3 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at University of South Alabama
English
Github Skills (14)
c1710
security10
mtls10
embedded10
c-library10
tls1210
c1110
sys10
tls1310
cryptography10
libtls10
dtls10
x5099
api-design8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
wolfSSL/wolfssl
Jul 2022 - Nov 2022
The wolfSSL library is a small, fast, portable implementation of TLS/SSL for embedded devices to the cloud. wolfSSL supports up to TLS 1.3 and DTLS 1.3!
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:13 reviews, 26 commits, 5 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Uriah primarily contributed to the wolfSSL library, focusing on implementing and improving cryptographic functionality for embedded systems. Their work included enabling DTLS 1.3 support, adding new ABI reference hooks, and updating the ABI macros for managing interface changes. They also addressed minor ABI updates and added APIs related to X.509 certificate management and HaProxy integration, demonstrating a focus on security and compatibility.
trusted-execution-environmentdata-storageopenssl-apiwolfsslfhe
Uriah-wolfSSL/wolfssl
Jul 2022 - Nov 2022
The wolfSSL library is a small, fast, portable implementation of TLS/SSL for embedded devices to the cloud. wolfSSL supports up to TLS 1.3!
Contributions:25 pushes, 4 branches in 4 months
sslc99libeventsecuritytls
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