Hey! I’m Jeremy Zimmer (jeremyz@ if we were colleagues). Mercurial Systems, LLC is my consulting business, which is just me.

Over more than a decade building and managing security programs, the most rewarding and impactful work I had the opportunity to do was working with startup scale projects in emerging technology to help them identify and address key security risks between initial prototype and product launch.

Rather than pursuing any kind of marketing strategy, I’m counting on my network to connect me with other Xooglers and similarly aligned teams who are building impactful technologies that benefit users, and maybe even make the world a better place to live.

Whether you are building hardware, software, services or some combinations, if you have a novel product idea that solves real problems for your customers, I’d like to help you make the safest and most secure version possible.

Professional Experience

15 years at Google/Alphabet, in brief:

2007-2009: Corporate IT, Desktop Support

2010: Linux Systems Administration, Release Engineering

2011: Executive Tech Support

2012-2014: Vulnerability Management, Bug Bounty

2025-2017: Security & Privacy Education

2018-2023: Security Risk Assessment (Mergers, Acquisitions and Other Bets)

Trivia

Started my Google career in TechStop 43, when it was open 24/7.

Conducted over 100 interviews, only used the RAID45 question a handful of times.

Still a mech keyboard enthusiast, now printing my own cases and parts.