"Peg" - Gregory Jones

Software engineer with 9 years' experience building secure distributed systems and a passion for Rust, secure networking and confidential computing

• peg@systemli.org +49 15754192811
• github.com/ameba23 gitlab.com/pegpeg
• Bornaerstr. 191, 09114 Chemnitz, Germany

Employment

April 2023 - August 2025 - Software engineer - Entropy Cryptography

• Designed and implemented feature for TDX attestation verification from within the substrate chain runtime
• Implemented Reproducible Confidential Virtual Machine image builds using Yocto
• Deployed confidential virtual machines on bare metal and Google Cloud Platform
• Implemented threshold signing protocol execution logic and transport using Noise protocol over Websockets
• Implemented a network status page using Leptos
• Wrote protocol and developer documentation

October 2016 - April 2023 - Software engineer - magmacollective.org

• Two main projects Dark Crystal social key recovery, and Cobox distributed file storage
• Secured project funding from Ledger Program, Open Technology Fund, National Democratic Institute, Ethereum Foundation, Prototype fund.
• Programming in Rust, Java, NodeJS and front-end Javascript
• Development and coordination of peer-to-peer applications built on the Hypercore and Secure Scuttlebutt protocols
• Built two features for the security-oriented Android messaging app, Briar
• Research and design of a new cryptographic protocol using threshold-based consensus

Education

BSc Cognitive Science (First Class), University of Leeds (2005)

Professional Development

• Rebooting the Web of Trust 8, Barcelona 2019 - co-authored Evaluating Social Schemes for Recovering Control of an Identifier social recovery working group
• Blockchain Spring School, University of Mittweida, 2018
• Ethberlin 4 hackathon 2024 - Pure rust implementation of a Waku protocol relay
• Hosted workshop "Community run communication" at Chaos Communication Congress 31C3, Hamburg 2014
• Organiser of Wireless Battle of the Mesh 2014 in Leipzig
• Co-authored article 'Seeding the wild - Peer-to-peer networks' for Compost magazine 2021
• City & Guilds certificates "Object Oriented Programming in Java Level 3" (2000) and "Coding and Programming in C++ Level 2" (1998)

Languages

English, German

Voluntary activities and hobbies

• Co-founder and treasurer of a computer recycling project
• Coordinator of an emergency accommodation scheme for Leeds Asylum Seeker Support Network
• Volunteer renovating social housing for Canopy Housing Project
• Building community radio communication infrastructure in a rural community in France
• Licensed amateur radio operator