Jeffrey Venable, Sr. Email & Phone Number

Chief architect leading all product development and engineering. Bootstrap cloud services, Kubernetes/Istio/Gitops cloud infrastructure, data engineering, blockchain node operations, graph databases, microservices, observability, SLAs. GraphQL APIs supporting example-based searches, business partner data mutations, and vulnerability alert subscriptions..

Saratoga, California, US

Hardware wallet with custodial services, securing cryptocurrency and providing the next generation of distributed identity. Blockchains combined with multi-signature, multi-factor cryptography.

San Francisco, California, US

Architecting security in a cloud environment for the world's fastest unicorn, now a decacorn!

Stealth.

San Jose, CA, US

Driving architectural vision and engineering leadership with hands-on coding, producing a blockchain platform for Cisco's supply chain. Chief Technology and Architecture Office (CTAO). Acquihire from BCG Digital Ventures.

Manhattan Beach, California, US

Corporate venture partnerships in blockchain platforms. Acqui-hired by Cisco.

Palo Alto, California, US

Leveraging blockchain technology to secure the Internet of Things (IoT), redefining resilience to threats, cost economics, and scale for billions of connected devices. Formerly Sensify Security.

San Jose, CA, US

• Security start-up using machine learning to detect threats post-breach.
• Engineering leader from Series A, mentoring engineers and data scientists.
• Championed Intel DPDK; rewrote data plane to scale concept product from 3 Gbps to 25+ Gbps.
• Drove adoption of C++14 and enablement of Python for data scientists.
• Implemented scalable line rate parsers producing JSON metadata; e.g. ASN.1, Kerberos, etc.
• Introduction of NoSQL database detection framework and throughput subsystems.

Seattle, Washington, US

• Introduced unified user identity product strategy; demonstration, architecture, coding effort lead, and integration with third-party partners.
• Introduced new authentication architecture; implemented cryptography and hardware offload, improving Kerberos from 1,600/s to 38,000+/s on a single load balancer.
• Architecture overview and design strategy for mobile device management product.
• Implemented various REST and enterprise proxy protocols.
• Agile team member, remaining heavily hands on with coding responsibility.
• Technical publication review.

Sunnyvale, CA, US

• Pulse Business UnitNetwork Access Control (UAC), Pulse SSL/VPN
• Software Engineer Development Program: Distinguished Engineer.
• Neoteris Architecture Board; Engineering Lead Committee; Juniper Open Source Council.
• Architecture planning with external business units: JUNOS EX switch, SRX firewall, Helios Wi-Fi.
• Trusted Computing Group specification reviewer; implemented protocol reference standard.
• Architected third-party vendor integration SDK for Pulse Client; lead coding effort.

San Jose, California, US

• Symantec Enterprise Firewall, Clientless VPNSafeweb Aquisition
• Integrate SafeWeb clientless VPN into Symantec SGS firewall.
• Lead engineer for: - AAA, RBAC, security protocols (AD, RADIUS, LDAP, SecureID). - Active Directory integration (Samba); clientless VPN file transfer. - Design process and policy, build process, code ownership and.
• Improvements in performance, clustering, and endpoint compliance.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Windows Platform Division, Networking and Communications
• Winsock API and TCP/IP user and kernel driver stack.
• Complete network stack rewrite (Windows Vista).
• Secure coding, performance, scale, protocols, 32/64-bit, Win32 API, TCP utilities and services.
• Lead engineer on Network Location Awareness.
• Lead debug engineer, assembly level expertise, daily ‘Dr. Watson’ (BSOD) triage.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Premiere Product Support and ServicesDeveloper Support, Networking
• Premiere service level agreements, providing user and kernel software design, debugging, sample code, defect identification, and customer advocacy to product groups.
• Write technical articles, source code: Platform SDK, MSDN, Knowledge Base (KB)

• Medical device startup specializing in diagnosis and analysis of soft-tissue muscle injuries.
• Medical technician Windows client; TCP/IP C/C++ software development, model report upload, server and database infrastructure, JAVA/HTML reporting.
• IT network administration; operations management.

Los Angeles, CA, US

• IT network administration.
• Design curriculum, training materials, and course instruction.