2017 Honoree
Jonathan Simowitz’06
BE Computer Engineering
Senior Software Engineer, Alphabet/Google, Jigsaw
- Leader on Project Shield’s core engineering team; Project Shield currently helps to protect hundreds of news, human rights and elections monitoring sites from online censorship by providing free DDoS mitigation services
- Mentor at the Startup Institute
- His work on Project Shield has been recognized by both the CEO of Google and the executive chairman of Alphabet, and it has been featured prominently in publications as diverse as Wired, Forbes, Fortune and CNET
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