// Joel Odom · Marietta, GA

Cybersecurity, teaching people to fly, and building things that probably don't need to exist.

Thirty years in computing, from software assurance research at Georgia Tech to cryptography and hardware trust at Anduril. Flight instructor, author of two B-grade fiction books, and high school robotics team mentor.

M.S. INFORMATION SECURITY · GEORGIA TECH

B.S. PHYSICS · GEORGIA TECH

CISSP

FAA-CERTIFIED FLIGHT INSTRUCTOR

SECURITY

2026–present: Anduril, Staff Technical Product Manager, Cryptography, Hardware Trust & Security. Cryptography for Lattice, Anduril's command-and-control platform that ties together sensors and autonomous systems, and hardware trust to protect national security.
2024–2025: MongoDB, Staff Product Manager, Cryptography. Everything encryption: in transit, at rest, and in use, including Queryable Encryption. Supported MongoDB's highest-value customers with their cryptography requirements.
2023–2024: BeyondTrust, Senior Product Manager, Linux Identity & Privilege Management. Looked after a Linux privilege-management product line and its move from on-prem to SaaS.
2020–2023: Salesforce, Director of Product Management, Cybersecurity & Privacy. Security and privacy; represented Salesforce at the W3C.
2003–2020: Georgia Tech Research Institute, Branch Head. Led a software assurance research team: fuzzing, symbolic analysis, reverse engineering.
1997–2003: Accenture. And a small software company of my own before that. Where the thirty years started.

FLIGHT

Commercial pilot and flight instructor. Since 2014 I've instructed and flown tow at Mid-Georgia Soaring Association: flight reviews, added ratings, and first-timers who leave the ground under my supervision and come back grinning. Proud owner of a Glasair Sportsman 2+2, which I've flown from the Texas Hill Country to the far side of the Rockies to Lake Ontario, and back home to Atlanta.

TOTAL TIME ...... 1,700+ hrs

PIC ............. 1,500+ hrs

GLIDER / TAILWHEEL .. 300+ / 200+

DUAL GIVEN ...... 150+ hrs

CODE

kings-descent/

A retro, turn-based dungeon crawler, modeled after the 1980s classic Tunnels of Doom. Ten procedurally generated floors, a hundred kinds of monster, and a king who never came back. Play it in your browser.

Rust · macroquad → kingsdescent.com

libre99/

A TI-99/4A rebuilt from the silicon up: a pure-Rust emulator with clean-room firmware, its own assembler and GPL toolchain, and original games. Zero borrowed bytes.

Rust · clean-room firmware → libre99.com

planet-explorer/

A real-time 3D procedural planet explorer built directly on wgpu (no game engine). Generate an Earth-sized world from a seed and fly seamlessly from orbit down to the grass.

Rust · wgpu · procedural → github

qe-sandbox/

Query encrypted data without ever decrypting it server-side. A sandbox for MongoDB Queryable Encryption.

Java · ★ 21

durbatuluk/

A secure remote-messaging and command system in C++: OpenSSL crypto, protobuf messages, signed and encrypted end to end. An older project, preserved from Google Code.

C++ · OpenSSL · protobuf

→ all my repos at github.com/joelodom

EVERYTHING ELSE