Lindell received a BSc and Msc degree in computer science from Bar-Ilan University.

In early 2019, he took over the role of CEO of Unbound Security, taking leave from Bar-Ilan University.

Lindell won the IBM Pat Goldberg Memorial Best Paper Award in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Math in 2006 for his work on the composition of Authenticated Byzantine Agreement,[13] and the best paper award at ACM CCS 2016 for work on high-throughput MPC protocols.

[14] In 2021, Lindell published a review article on secure multiparty computation in the Communications of the ACM.

[15] Lindell is also the co-inventor of the AES-GCM-SIV mode of operation for symmetric encryption, standardized by the IETF Crypto Forum Research Group in RFC 8452.