Riley Scott Jacob
Systems engineer.
Physicist by training.
I’m a systems engineer at a midsize manufacturer, where I lead IT infrastructure, security, and software development. Over the past few years I’ve modernized the company’s entire technology stack: network, identity, virtualization, PKI, custom applications, and more.
Before this I studied physics at Cornell University (BA ‘22). I still think about it constantly – particularly electrodynamics, both classical and quantum. I’m building an interactive electromagnetic wave simulator to help teach electrodynamics visually, and an interactive Feynman diagram explorer to be the QED reference I always wanted.
I also do security research on the side. I discovered and reported CVE-2026-44171, a path traversal vulnerability in MariaDB’s mbstream utility.
