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Public Interest Technology and Security

It is my personal philosophy that we can have nice things and technology does not have to be a doomsday scenario. I have 8 years of experience in not only building secure systems, but assessing them for various governments, organizations, and companies. I have been a technologist for over 10 years and have experienced and led teams from very large companies to the nonprofit sector.

Security Certifications: Sec+ and GIAC (GFACT, GCLD, GPCS, & GCSA)

Other Certifications: Amateur Radio: Technician (KO6OVM)

Experience

04-2021 - present

Director of Engineering

The Electronic Frontier Foundation

  • Manage and support EFF Open Source Projects
  • Certbot management and coordination
  • Consult on digital security with lawyers, journalists, and policy makers
  • Work on EFF PIT team to help onboard new projects
  • Manage engineer's development, effectiveness, team morale, and assist with goals
  • Continued development and updates to security education guides
  • HTTPS Everywhere maintenance and sunset

Tech: ACME, HTTPS/TLS, CI/CD, Sumologic

08-2018 - 03-2021

Staff Technologist

The Electronic Frontier Foundation

  • Lead developement on HTTPS Everywhere web extension
  • Work with community partners in the Tor project
  • Privacy advocacy on major web platforms
  • Worked on Security Education Companion for EFF Tor Guides and developed Surviellance Self Defense guide on Phone Privacy
  • Research various related encryption technologies
  • Keep up to date on browser policies

Tech: JavaScript/ES6, Python (Selenium), Bash, NodeJS, Linux, Travis, Docker, HTTPS/TLS, Onion Routing

04-2017 - 07-2018

Senior Web Developer

True North Inc.

  • Led a site rebuild for a major private client from build to launch with no missed deadlines in 3 months
  • Maintain & manage services and containers that hold internal and external resources/sites on Linux environments
  • Mentor and manage developers
  • Perform code reviews for production ready standards
  • Analyze inventory of resources and sunset projects as needed and decrease technical debt

Tech: WordPress, Drupal 7, JavaScript/ES6, Angular, Backbone.JS, AWS, Digital Ocean, Gulp

03-2016 - 03-2017

Interactive Developer

True North Inc.

  • Refactored and updated code that linked to sensitive information for a client, resulted in less errors and friction with information in transit
  • Implemented TLS on to all internal and external services
  • Built new donation form for a non-profit client in the Luminate platform, outperformed base template within 2 months

Tech: WordPress (PHP), JavaScript/ES6, Angular, Luminate CMS, AWS

08-2015 - 02-2016

Software Developer

Alley Interactive

  • Assisted with site rebuild for a major news publication client using the WordPress VIP Platform
  • Refactor jQuery modules to a more prototype/object based structure & reduced event bubbling

Tech: WordPress (PHP), JavaScript, Vagrant

2013 - 2015

Jr. Software Engineer

CBS Local

  • Deployed new features on CBS Local multi-site build that deployed to over 24 markets, totaling 150 million users a day
  • Integrated newly acquired content partner, Eventful, into Radio.com's music charts feature
  • Keep code to host's standards for secure coding

Tech: WordPress (PHP), JavaScript