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Vincent James Zimmer

Staff Software Engineer β€” Firmware, Security & Formal Methods
Seattle area, WA Β· vincentjzimmer.github.io Β· LinkedIn Β· Google Scholar

πŸ‘‹ About Me

I'm a senior firmware and platform security engineer with 30+ years of experience β€” from silicon bring-up to OS handoff. Currently at Anduril Industries working on firmware for autonomous systems, AI edge hardware (NVIDIA Jetson), and applying formal verification to mission-critical code.

Previously: Microsoft (Project Mu, firmware threat modeling) and Intel (27 years β€” UEFI architecture, Secure Boot, TPM/TCG, FSP).

πŸ”§ What I Work On

Area Details
Firmware UEFI/BIOS, EDKII, Project Mu, FSP, PI Spec, embedded Linux
Linux / NixOS Nix flakes & modules, reproducible firmware packaging, Rust-based systemd services
Security Secure Boot, TPM/TCG, SPDM, NIST 800-193, threat modeling, post-quantum crypto
Formal Methods Lean 4, TLA+, Rocq/Coq, Isabelle/HOL, CBMC, Frama-C
Languages Rust Β· C Β· OCaml Β· Python Β· Nix Β· Bash
AI Hardware NVIDIA Jetson (firmware, secure boot, security hardening)

πŸ“š Books

πŸ“„ Selected Papers & Standards

  • Post-Quantum SPDM Device Authentication β€” MDPI Journal of Cryptography, 2022
  • UEFI Firmware Fuzzing with Simics β€” DAC 2020
  • Symbolic Execution for BIOS Security β€” USENIX WOOT 2015
  • RFC 5970: DHCPv6 Options for Network Boot (co-author)

πŸŽ“ Education

  • M.S. Computer Science & Engineering β€” University of Washington, 1999
  • B.S. Electrical Engineering β€” Cornell University, 1992
  • ErdΕ‘s number: 3 Β· csauthors.net

πŸ“‚ Notable Public Repos

Full CV: sites.google.com/site/vincentzimmer/cv

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