Jim Roskind

Jim Roskind is an American software engineer best known for designing the QUIC^[5] protocol in 2012 while being an employee at Google.^[6][7] Roskind co-founded Infoseek in 1994 with 7 other people, including Steve Kirsch.^[8] Later that year, Roskind wrote the Python profiler which is part of the standard library.^[9] From 1995 to 2003 he was chief architect at Netscape during which time he developed Netscape's Java security module.^[10][11]

Jim Roskind
Born	Bronx NY
Nationality	American
Education	MIT (B.S., M.S., Ph.D.)[1][2][3]
Alma mater	MIT
Occupation	Software engineer
Employer	Amazon
Known for	QUIC protocol
Awards	Hertz Fellowship (1978) [4] National Cyber Security Hall of Fame (2024)
Scientific career
Fields	Computer science
Institutions	Bell Labs[2] Infoseek Netscape AOL Google Amazon
Thesis	Edge disjoint spanning trees and failure recovery in data communication networks (1978)
Doctoral advisor	Robert Gallager

Brokerage dispute

While at Netscape in 1996, he successfully brought a lawsuit against Morgan Stanley, arguing that the way they sold his stock caused him to get a lower price than he should have.^[12] That case was appealed up to the US Supreme Court, which declined to hear the case, leaving in place a precedent where individuals can sue stock brokers for violations of state law.^[13]