Jim Roskind
Jim Roskind | |
|---|---|
| Born | Bronx NY |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | MIT (B.S., M.S., Ph.D.) |
| Alma mater | MIT |
| Occupation | Software engineer |
| Employer | Amazon |
| Known for | QUIC protocol |
| Awards | Hertz Fellowship (1978) National Cyber Security Hall of Fame (2024) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science |
| Institutions | Bell Labs Infoseek Netscape AOL Amazon |
| Thesis | Edge disjoint spanning trees and failure recovery in data communication networks (1978) |
| Doctoral advisor | Robert Gallager |
Jim Roskind is an American software engineer best known for designing the QUIC protocol in 2012 while being an employee at Google. Roskind co-founded Infoseek in 1994 with 7 other people, including Steve Kirsch. Later that year, Roskind wrote the Python profiler which is part of the standard library. From 1995 to 2003 he was chief architect at Netscape during which time he developed Netscape's Java security module.