Jacob Wilder is a cryptographic security engineer and solutions architect with a background in applied cryptography and computer networks. He is a founding member, security engineer, and architect at Enveil, a data security startup producing advanced homomorphic encryption products. Before leaving to join the founding team at Enveil, Jacob worked at the National Security Agency in a number of roles relating to homomorphic encryption, quantum resistant cryptographic protocol design, high performance computing, and PKI analysis. He particularly enjoys bridging information security threat modelling with real-world scenarios to achieve the greatest impact towards improved security.