# Samir Menon

> Efficient inference!

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/samirmenon

## Work Experience
### Co-Founder @ Sail Research
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, CA
building the best infra for background agents!

### Software Engineer @ Apple
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025
Secure Transports, in SEAR Platform Security

### Co-Founder @ Blyss
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineer @ Yubico
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022
- Built and maintained the systems that securely manufacture and program YubiKeys
- Initiated company-wide effort to mitigate supply-chain attacks using device attestation
- Helped review implementations of ECC and RSA in YubiKey firmware
- Contributed to side-channel analysis and post-quantum cryptography efforts

### Researcher @ Applied Cryptography Group, Stanford University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019
https://github.com/dwu4/lattice-snarg

― Built practical private information retrieval systems using homomorphic cryptography
― First   to   implement   lattice   cryptography optimizations   that   only   existed   in   literature   prior
― Achieved   2x   speedup   over   current   pairings-based   methods,   added   quantum   resistance
― Used   to   make   anonymous   cryptocurrency   Zcash   faster   (while   hiding   sender,   receiver   &   amount)


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science
Stanford University
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019

### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
Stanford University
Jan 2015 – Jan 2019


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/samir-menon-27954214b

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Last updated: 2026-03-22