About
Jules holds a PhD from MIT in secure hardware and confidential computing, with prior roles at Microsoft Research and NVIDIA. His research has focused on secure enclave design, microarchitectural attack defenses, and cryptographic deployment including fully homomorphic encryption and multiparty computation.
Jules Drean @julesdrean
Thanks to everyone at @Canonical for their support @IjlalLoutfi, @chrisschnabel, @sametsahinnet, Gabriel Aguiar Noury, Andrey Grebennikov, and many others.
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Jules Drean @julesdrean
Also excited for what's next: supply chain security and building secure execution environment for AI to do work safely on prem.
Apr 24, 2026
Jules Drean @julesdrean
Among other achievements that would not be possible without Ubuntu: our Tinfoil confidential VM image is compatible with all confidential computing hardware out there and let us maintain a single minimal code base for all our platforms.
Apr 24, 2026
Founder at TinfoilYC X25
Intro paths
Jules went through Y Combinator (Spring 2025) β any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
Their group partner at YC was Diana Hu, General Partner at Y Combinator β the partner who ran Tinfoil's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile β
In turn, Jules can intro founders to Tinfoil's investors below.
