Vincent Zimmer
Staff Software Engineer at Anduril Industries
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVincent Zimmer is a staff software engineer based in Seattle with nearly three decades of deep experience in low-level system software, firmware, and trusted computing. He has led platform firmware architecture and security work at Intel and Microsoft, chaired multiple UEFI working groups, and now focuses on firmware, NixOS, and security at Anduril. Comfortable in C and increasingly Rust, he blends hands-on silicon initialization and secure boot expertise with threat modeling of platform and OS features. His career spans BIOS and RAID firmware to modern Project Mu efforts, reflecting a rare continuity from legacy PC firmware to contemporary secure firmware stacks. Vincent’s combination of standards leadership and practical embedded development gives him a unique perspective on designing auditable, network-capable platform firmware.
8 years of coding experience
33 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science and Engineering, MS Computer Science and Engineering at University of WashingtonBS Electrical Engineering, BS Electrical Engineering at Cornell University
Github Skills (11)
power-management10
qemu9
intel9
firmware9
uefi9
rdma8
arm6
mdm6
microsoft5
python3
pip2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
intel/ModernFW
May 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 7 pushes in 7 days
vincent-j-zimmer/mu_tiano_platforms
Nov 2024 - Dec 2024
Project Mu Virtual Platform Firmware
Contributions:6 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
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