Jesse Young

Chicago, IL

jlyo@jlyo.org

EXPERIENCE
- Ping Things - Senior Software Engineer
- January 2022 - Current
- Chicago, IL
  - Ported storage and analytics platform from kOps/AWS to Azure Kubernetes Service.
  - Developed and tuned monitoring and alerting pipelines to drive 24/7 on-call rotations.
  - Designed anti-aliasing filters for fast sample rate synchrophasor measurements.
  - Wrote at-least-once delivery protocol for PCM time series data, significantly reducing spans of dropped samples.
  - Determine priorities and roadmap work for customer on-boarding and acquisition.
- Reverb - Senior Security Engineer
- January 2020 - June 2021
- Chicago, IL
  - Integrate container vulnerability scanning reports in CI/CD automation tools.
  - Identify and patch input handling errors using LangSec principles.
  - Establish and communicate authentication and login session management implementation guidelines.
  - Harden Terraform code review and deployment processes for Sarbanes-Oxley act.
  - Mend build/deployment artifact provenance discontinuities.
- Uptake - Senior Security Engineer
- November 2018 - January 2020
- Chicago, IL
  - Hostmaster and SME on the DNS and PKI, holding weekly knowledge sharing sessions.
  - Implement container service discovery in AWS GovCloud, and develop roadmap for DNS improvements and features.
  - Develop chain loading client to authenticate and populate secrets from AWS Parameter Store.
  - Write fine-grained IAM policies on ParamStore secret sub-resources.
  - Detect and mitigate code vulnerable to SQLi, privilege escalation, before reaching production.
  - Respond to security and availability incidents, following up with detailed post-mortem documents.
- Google - Production Security SRE
- October 2015 - November 2016
- Mountain View, CA
  - Provided international production on-call support and emergency response for core authentication, audit, key material, and access control services.
  - Developed seccomp hardened Ed25519 SSH authentication oracle limiting private key access.
  - Researched and advocated language theoretic security best practices.
  - Assisted development teams in delivering low latency access control lookups to production.
  - Worked across the SRE organization to eliminate service dependency cycles.
  - Qualified solutions for intra-organizational bastion access control.
- Cleversafe - Software Engineer
- August 2010 - September 2015
- Chicago, IL
  - Debugged and performance tuned the Linux kernel, userspace and network stack for distributed storage.
  - Implemented and maintained an Amazon S3 compatible object storage HTTP server.
  - Designed customer facing user interface for storage appliance configuration and management.
  - Lead creative problem solving sessions on power reduction strategies.
  - Delivered configurable, dual IP stack functionality, integrated with customer networking requirements.
  - Served as a customer and internal IPv6 resource, providing technical guidance and best practices.
- Software Technologies Group - Embedded Software Development Intern
- Summer 2009
- Westchester, IL
  - Researched, designed and developed Plug-n-Play ZigBee router/range extender product.
  - Developed wireless RS-232, RS-485 bridge application firmware on the Jennic JN5148 platform.
  - Reverse engineered and patched a proprietary OS MAC address boot lock.
  - Demonstrated finished product and demo application to project stakeholders.
  - Developed user configuration and programmable deployment interfaces.
- Cleversafe - Software Development Intern
- Summer 2008
- Chicago, IL
  - Developed and delivered a shell language and utilities for a distributed filesystem.
  - Designed and implemented a distributed filesystem consistency check utility.
  - Presented finished product and communicated research findings to development and executive teams.
EDUCATION
- Illinois Institute of Technology
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science & Computer Engineering
- December 2012
- Honors: cum laude (GPA: 3.641)
  - Association for Computing Machinery - Student Chapter President
  - Illinois Tech Robotics - Technical Team Lead
  - Teaching Assistant - Intro I & II, Computer Organization & Assembly, Data Structures, Systems Programming
  - Illinois Technology Association Fall Challenge - 2nd place 2012
  - Chicago Linux User Group - Technical Presenter
CERTIFICATIONS
TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES
- Computer Languages, Protocols & APIs
  C, Python, Lua, Java, Bash, shell, Go, VHDL, OCaml, XML, JSON, x86-64, x86, ARM, MIPS, m68k, Beyond Architecture, TCP/IP, UDP, IPv6, IPSec, IKE, SSL/TLS, POSIX, SSH, Ethernet, DHCP, DHCPv6, DNS, OpenVPN, X.509 PKI, 802.11, 802.15.4, LAN, WAN, PAN, ZigBee, SES, RS-232, HTTP, Amazon S3
- Tools & Operating Systems
  13 years of experience in Linux, Debian, Arch Linux, CentOS, OpenWRT, Alpine Linux, KVM/QEmu, Linux namespaces, cgroups, nmap, Wireshark, iptables, gcc, busybox, djbdns, nginx, JenOS, Git, SVN, HG, RPM, apt, apk, dpkg, pacman, ipkg, Jetty, Netty, LaTeX