D J Capelis
Flight Attendant at Skywest Airlines
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolD J Capelis is a security-focused technologist with 26 years of experience blending deep systems research and applied engineering to secure large-scale platforms. He led OS security and kernel-level defenses at Apple, drove security design across product roadmaps and cloud trusted environments, and has a PhD in Computer Science from UC Santa Cruz. Earlier roles include building campus-wide identity and network security at UCSD, pioneering research that combined hardware, storage and performance experiments, and practical work improving safety-critical transport systems. He also contributes to creative engineering through an art collective that builds large kinetic sculptures, reflecting a taste for hands-on fabrication and unconventional problem solving. Now based in San Francisco and working as a flight attendant, he’s taking time to see systems from both above and below the clouds while remaining ready to re-enter technical leadership. Notably, his background spans both academic research and high-stakes production security at scale, with a proven ability to translate theory into hardened, operational systems.
26 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoUniversity of California Santa Cruz
Stackoverflow
961reputation
375kreached
17answers
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Github Skills (39)
bitmap10
single-file10
file-format10
locking9
cpp9
thread7
ruby7
linux7
homebrew7
midi-controller7
led-controller6
artnet6
hyperion6
macos6
protocols6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
djcapelis/atomic-ring
Mar 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year 6 months
threadpasslocking
djcapelis/memdiff
Jul 2013 - May 2015
Contributions:21 commits, 3 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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