Jamil Bou Kheir
Founder of Firezone and a former Cisco security engineer who built a YC-backed open-source zero-trust access platform using Elixir and Rust.
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Jan 31, 2026 • 1h 37min
Jamil Bou Kheir on Firezone
Jamil Bou Kheir, founder of Firezone and ex-Cisco security engineer, built a YC-backed open-source zero-trust access platform using Elixir and Rust. He recounts Firezone’s start as a WireGuard UI, the split control-plane (Elixir) and data-plane (Rust), and SnowNet for NAT traversal. Conversation also covers scaling, Postgres WAL streaming, observability, large refactors, and open-source licensing choices.
