Paul Adolph
Retired Independent Consultant at Paul Adolph & Associates
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolPaul Adolph is a retired independent consultant and seasoned software architect with 13 years of documented experience across consumer video, DRM/security, and embedded systems development. He spent a long tenure at Netflix driving client-platform security, authentication, and core media middleware, and earlier led firmware and DVD/DVR software projects at LSI Logic, C-Cube, and other semiconductor customers. Equally comfortable hands-on or leading teams, he has a track record of integrating third‑party components, making design‑vs‑buy decisions, and shipping high-quality consumer electronics software at scale. His background in physics and an MSEE in DSP/communications underpin deep expertise in low-level C/C++ firmware, real‑time systems, and multimedia performance optimization. Based in San Jose, he now consults independently while drawing on decades of cross‑platform TV, console, and embedded experience to solve both architectural and implementation challenges. An uncommon strength is his combination of broadcast/DSP roots with modern client security work, bridging legacy hardware constraints and contemporary content‑protection requirements.
13 years of coding experience
36 years of employment as a software developer
BS Physics, BS Physics at University of California, BerkeleyMSEE Digital Signal Processing Communications, MSEE Digital Signal Processing Communications at Santa Clara University
Github Skills (18)
security10
cryptography9
dom9
dynamic-routing9
cpp9
json-parser8
monitoring7
smile7
junit6
avro6
quickcheck6
smartthings5
binary-format5
property-based-testing5
cbor4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Netflix/NfWebCrypto
May 2013 - Jan 2017
Web Cryptography API Polyfill
Contributions:231 commits, 1 PR, 18 pushes in 3 years 8 months
cryptographysecurity
padolph/msl
May 2015 - Mar 2025
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 11 months
securitymessagemessage-layer-security
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